Almost five years after then communications minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri published South Africa’s first policy document on digital terrestrial television migration, the country’s broadcasting regulator will publish its final regulations. Needless to say these regulations have been a long time
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South Africa finally has the regulations in place that will guide the country’s migration from analogue to digital terrestrial television and the good news for telecommunications operators is that a big chunk of the spectrum that will be freed up through the process has been reserved for broadband. The
Communications minister Dina Pule’s technical adviser, Roy Kruger, said on Tuesday that selling 20% of Telkom’s equity to Korea’s KT Corp would have amounted to “giving away” a fifth of “our country’s asset” and was a “rubbish” deal. He also
Communications minister Dina Pule has moved quickly to distance herself from comments made by her technical adviser, Roy Kruger, at a telecommunications conference in Cape Town on Tuesdaym saying she “learnt with regret” of his remarks
Free-to-air television broadcaster e.tv has taken exception to a proposal by the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) to take away a big chunk of radio frequency spectrum currently reserved for broadcasters and to reassign it for wireless broadband. The spectrum
As e.tv and government head to court this week in a dispute over who should own and manage the crucial set-top box control system for digital terrestrial television (DTT), state-owned signal distributor Sentech has moved to allay fears that it will charge what it likes if it manages the system. E.tv
Communications minister Dina Pule should not be surprised by e.tv’s decision to take her to court over her “unlawful” and “impugned” decision to appoint Sentech as the manager of the crucial control system for digital terrestrial television, the free-to-air broadcaster’s chief operating officer Bronwyn Keene-Young says in new
Communications minister Dina Pule is “surprised” by e.tv’s high court application against her in which the free-to-air broadcaster accuses her of acting unlawfully in appointing Sentech to manage the control system that will be used in the set-top boxes that are needed for consumers to receive digital terrestrial television signals
Communications minister Dina Pule says digital terrestrial television broadcasting will finally be switched on in December, kicking off a long-delayed period of migration and “dual illumination” where both analogue and digital signals will coexist. Pule made the announcement
Free-to-air broadcaster e.tv has filed papers in the high court in Johannesburg against communications minister Dina Pule, accusing of her acting unlawfully in appointing Sentech to manage the control system that will be used in the set-top boxes that are needed for consumers to receive digital terrestrial television signals