Happy anniversary (for 1 November)! 10 years since South Africa first missed digital migration deadline

[Jan]

A decade late and a dollar short — South Africa's digital TV hamster wheel

This year, on 1 November 2021, it was ten years since South Africa missed its first deadline to switch off old analogue TV signals occupying precious radio frequency spectrum.

The constant delays have cost South Africa dearly — holding back the issuing of new wireless network capacity in the form of spectrum for a decade.

 

[Lupus]

Here's to another 10

 

[KleinBoontjie]

In fairness to Ndabeni-Abrahams and current minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni,

Fairness? What did they do?

 

[deweyzeph]

MultiChoice’s deal with the SABC was mainly about how much it would pay to carry the SABC News and SABC Encore channels.

Surely the SABC should be paying Multichoice to carry its crap, not the other way around?

 

[IdlePhaedrus]

Opportunity lost and dead.

If the analogue terrestrial signal is switched off tomorrow there are probably about three hundred people country wide that would notice.

All the shacks now have satellite dishes and the flat screens stolen in the "insurrection".

Party before cuntry, I mean country.

 

[My_King]

Like my previous question...

Is die kak nog nie af nie?

 

[Burny1]

The quickest way to get people off their asses to do something is for them to be deprived of it. All they have to do is set a date, at that date, switch off, and those who have not yet changed, will very quickly get their free decoders sorted. It's because people are given extension on extension on extension that nothing is happening. It's called human nature.