Seja Digital, the entity responsible for the DTT migration, has already delivered 10 million DTT kits to families benefiting from social plans of the Brazilian government. This is part of the digitalization process that is being carried out, gradually, in the country. The delivery of the 10 millionth equipment took place in the city of [...]
The minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has tasked stakeholders in the Digital Switch Over (DSO) to carry out a detailed research to understanding consumers’ preferred content and means of delivering it. Mohammed who tasked the DSO stakeholders in Lagos yesterday on content delivery, at the opening of the Creative Nigeria Summit 2018 [...]
MVS Communications will enter the free-to-air market in Mexico City. In June, regulator IFT authorized the transmission of channel 52MX using the frequency 6.4 that belongs to Multimedios, El Economista reported. IFT’s approval comes after four years of dispute for regulatory issues related to MVS’s concession title and a conflict with the regulator in 2014 [...]
A statement was made by Marcel Tchobo, technical adviser to the media Minister of the digital economy and communication stating that TNT will be available by the end of December 2018 in Benin. Thus, after several postponements, well after June 17, 2015, the date set for the global transition to DTT, the Beninese authorities could [...]
Wilmer Pantoja, in charge of Digital Television in the Vice Ministry of Telecommunications, said that Bolivia will be the second country in South America, after Brazil, to carry out its first analog switch-off, scheduled for November 2019. “Brazil is the only country in the region that has carried out the analog switch-off and is doing [...]
Multimedios group’s channel 6.1 of Mexico City (CDMX) is currently in the testing phase and is expected to launch soon. Meanwhile, the company chose to “divide” the bandwidth into two more channels: 6.2 and 6.3 with contents of Millennium TV and Teleritmo, respectively, according to El Economista. Multimedios won the DTT channel in CDMX in [...]
Peru is moving forward with the deployment of DTT, in order to face the analog switch off, scheduled for 2020 in Lima and Callao. By the end of June, 53 TV stations started DTT transmissions in these two cities, as well as in ten other locations in the interior, according to news agency Andina. Currently, [...]
Zimbabwe failed to meet the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) deadline to migrate from analogue broadcasting to digital since June 2015. The digitalization project which is under the jurisdiction of the Broadcasting Association of Zimbabwe (BAZ) and being rolled out by Transmedia brought so much excitement across the country but the flame has blown out due [...]
The president of the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel), Juarez Quadros, said that on August 14 the analog switch off will be carried out in seven capital cities of the north and center west of the country. The cities are Boa Vista (Roraima), Campo Grande (Mato Grosso do Sul), Cuiabá (Mato Grosso), Macapá (Amapá), Palmas [...]
Bolivia’s vice-minister of Telecommunications, Gustavo Pozo, said that the deadline for free-to-air channels to begin their DTT transmissions expires at the end of June. According to Pozo, all VHF channels must start the transition until the end of this month, reported Prensa Latina. The official said there were delays in Customs in the entry of [...]