Communications Minister Ayanda Dlodlo has vowed to ensure government-subsidised set-top boxes (STBs) used to receive the digital TV signal will be encrypted.<\/p>\n
According to a report by BusinessDay<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Dlodlo said she will implement the ANC’s policy on the matter.<\/p>\n The minister’s statement comes after\u00a0Former\u00a0Minister of Communications Faith Muthambi had her appeal against an SCA judgment upheld<\/strong><\/a> regarding STB encryption.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Constitutional Court ruled that the 2015 Broadcasting Digital Migration policy was lawfully determined, meaning that state-sponsored\u00a0set-top boxes without\u00a0encryption capabilities can be distributed to households.<\/p>\n South Africa’s digital migration process is being held up by the delay in the distribution of the STBs, after having suffered multiple delays<\/strong><\/a> over the past decade.<\/p>\n The completion of the digital migration process will free up valuable spectrum, which broadband providers can use to increase connectivity in the country.<\/p>\n Communications Minister Ayanda Dlodlo has vowed to ensure government-subsidised set-top boxes will be encrypted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":209530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[42378,18152],"class_list":["post-215166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-ayanda-dlodlo","tag-set-top-box-stb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215168,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215166\/revisions\/215168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0MultiChoice welcomes judgement on digital TV encryption<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"