Communications Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane has stated that\u00a0state-sponsored set-top boxes will not be encrypted.<\/p>\n
According to the City Press, Kubayi-Ngubane said she was unlikely to press for encrypted smart boxes.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy main concern is that the encryption battle has dragged the whole DTT project,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The digital migration project has dragged on for years in South Africa, with a fight over whether the set-top boxes should be encrypted or not adding to the project’s woes.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, in meetings some people in the party prefer encrypted boxes, but the policy is clear. If I were to change any DTT policies now, I must justify the changes, consult the public, and possibly have matters hauled through courts of law. There simply isn\u2019t time.”<\/p>\n
South Africa’s latest deadline to complete the digital migration project is June 2019.<\/p>\n
This follows former Communications Minister Ayanda Dlodlo committing to a December 2018 deadline, and South African missing its original deadline of 2011.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The international deadline, as determined by the International Telecommunication Union, was June 2015.<\/p>\n Kubayi-Ngubane’s latest statement comes after reports of MultiChoice allegedly trying to influence the government’s policy on set-top box encryption and multiple legal battles over the production of the set-top boxes.<\/p>\n Communications Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane has stated that\u00a0state-sponsored set-top boxes will not be encrypted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":169109,"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":[24,18668],"tags":[35,47670,18152],"class_list":["post-240588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","category-government","tag-headline","tag-mmamoloko-kubayi","tag-set-top-box-stb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240588"}],"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=240588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240592,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240588\/revisions\/240592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0What Naspers has to say about MultiChoice-ANN7 deal<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"