South Africa moves closer to digital television, as analogue broadcasting services above 694MHz go off across the country, with telcos expected to soon get spectrum go-ahead.
As the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT) works to complete its South Africa Connect (SA Connect) programme, it is mandating the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) to launch a R6-billion national broadband project. The project, to be awarded per region, aims to ensure that government reduces the cost of communication infrastructure from municipality up to national government level, said Communications and Digital Technologies Minister Mondli Gungubele.
The department of communications and digital technologies says floods have affected the installation rate of set-top boxes in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape.