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Aldre Dreyer appointed to head DTT project

Nomvula Mokonyane
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Communications Minister, Nomvula Mokonyane, has announced that Aldre Dreyer, has been appointed to head the Project Management Office that will lead the entire Digital Terrestrial Television project in the country.

South Africa missed the 2015 deadline to migrate from analogue to digital broadcasting.

Mokonyane addressed the media in Pretoria saying they are planning to switch off analogue transmission in the Free State by the end of the year.

“We hope to engage in the aggressive strategy to distribute the existing stock of set-top-boxes in the identified provinces for migration. In the next few months our plan is to leverage on the support from the Free State provincial Government, to switch the province off by the end of December 2018, allowing Sentech to switch off all the analogue transmitters in the province. And we do not want to speculate, but our wish is that we do not go beyond 2019 to switch off the whole country.”

 

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