Constitutional Court sides with E-tv in analogue TV and spectrum fight

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Are there not enough set top boxes available?
Has anyone actually gone to Post Office to try and get one of these things?
 
Yay ETV!

Lets keep holding the country back even further...
 
ShaunSA said:
Yeah because if things work in our favor it's good to ignore the constitution
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I get that aspect of it, but what censure has been recommended for the Department of non-communications for failing to uphold their Constitutional Mandate for the last decade?

It would be a somewhat poor judgement that doesn't include some sort of censure for the Department for continuously fscking the country over.
 
I hope all the cell providers and any one else that's affected pull the ads from E-tv
 
“The decision of the Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies not to give notice and take account of representations received on the analogue switch-off date is unlawful and is set aside,” the Constitutional Court ruled.

“The Minister’s decision to determine the deadline for registration of set-top boxes to be 31 October 2021, without considering the number of people who will be adversely affected by the analogue switch-off, tainted the process with irrationality.”
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another anc success story to tell?

viva anc ...... viva .......
 
“The Minister’s decision to determine the deadline for registration of set-top boxes to be 31 October 2021, without considering the number of people who will be adversely affected by the analogue switch-off, tainted the process with irrationality.”
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I don't understand this. Watching the garbage that SABC and ETV pump through the airwaves is not a constitutional right. At most they will be slightly inconvenienced until they get a set top box.

Maybe with this as precedent, someone can take Eskom and the minister of electricity to court to tell them that the onus regulations on electricity that are imposed are completely irrational considering there is no electricity.
 
konfab said:
I don't understand this. Watching the garbage that SABC and ETV pump through the airwaves is not a constitutional right. At most they will be slightly inconvenienced until they get a set top box.

Maybe with this as precedent, someone can take Eskom and the minister of electricity to court to tell them that the onus regulations on electricity that are imposed are completely irrational considering there is no electricity.
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in other words, government has the responsibility to make sure than the switch off has no major impact for the current viewers.

anc has no any knowledge about the number of viewers that will be affected. (in fact, anc knows nothing about south africa)
 
mypetcow said:
While we're at it with the delay can we also please turn off all AM and FM transmissions too and replace those with DAB+. That would be great.
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Why bother with the hassle and expense?
 
noxibox said:
Why bother with the hassle and expense?
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Asking the right questions here.

1. To make better use of the spectrum
2. Allow for more independent radio stations as the DAB+ spectrum can be used more efficiently fitting way more broadcasting in a set range
3. Listen to sweet sweet 5FM in amazing digital clarity
 
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