{"id":8647,"date":"2009-07-03T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-07-03T12:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T10:14:00","slug":"digital-tv-rollout-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/8647-digital-tv-rollout-review.html","title":{"rendered":"Digital TV rollout review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) will ask <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/Telecoms\/7981.html\"><strong>Communications Minister Siphiwe Nyanda<\/strong><\/a> to review the time frame for the migration from analogue to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Digital_television\" target=\"_blank\">digital television<\/a>, officials said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Icasa councillor Robert Nkuna said the Digital Terrestrial Television regulations would for now retain the current time frame which is from November 2008 to November 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, the authority will consider advising the minister to review the current dual illumination period, since commercial switch-on did not take place on November 1, 2008, as initially planned,&#8221; said Nkuna.<\/p>\n<p>He said ministers in the Southern African Development Community agreed last week the region should switch over to digital television by 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will talk to the minister regarding a possible review of the time frame.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Nkuna said he believed South Africa might be able to migrate &#8220;much sooner&#8221; than that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=179713\"><strong>Digital TV rollout<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; give your views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Icasa will ask Communications Minister Siphiwe Nyanda to review the time frame for the migration from analogue to digital television<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8647"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}