Organisations representing both sides of the set-top box battle over encryption are celebrating cabinet’s announcement on Thursday that government-subsidised set-top boxes for digital television will contain a control system. Celebrations, however, could be premature
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Sentech has announced that it has switched on all 178 of its digital terrestrial television (DTT) transmitters, ensuring digital population coverage of 84,23% and geographic coverage of 57,99%. The news comes in the wake of the statement by communications
Cabinet has approved the digital migration amendment policy which will see an access control system included in television set-top boxes, communications minister Faith Muthambi said on Thursday. “It will protect the government investment in set-top boxes
The Democratic Alliance on Sunday called for clarity in relation to reports that the communications ministry spent an unauthorised R1,6m on newspaper advertisements. “It is reported … that this expenditure did not go through the proper approval processes
With just four months to go until the deadline to switch off analogue television broadcasts, the digital migration programme may be about to be thrown into disarray once again. This is after a report on Wednesday that says that communications
Communications minister Faith Muthambi has signed a secretive SABC memorandum of incorporation that strips the SABC board of its statutory powers. The memorandum gives Muthambi and SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng overall control of the
The department of communications is in disarray with its minister, Faith Muthambi, facing off against defiant senior management. Senior sources said the relationship between her and her
The Democratic Alliance has welcomed news that the ANC has opted for encryption for the digital set-top boxes that will be subsidised by government for up to 5m poorer households
The ANC decided at its lekgotla last week that cabinet’s decision in favour of the use of a conditional access system based on encryption was the right one for South Africa’s digital terrestrial television project
The Democratic Alliance has called for the department of communications, the new portfolio created after last year’s general election – when President Jacob Zuma split the old communications department in two – to be disbanded