Three firms seek more time on digital migration

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'We will meet digital migration deadline'
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TANZANIA is confident of meeting the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) deadline for global migration to digital terrestrial television set for June 17, next year. The Minister for Information, Youth, Culture and Sports Dr Fenella Mukangara, said the ...

48 Countries Beat Digital Migration Deadline
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FORTY-eight nations, out of the 119 member countries of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), have successfully transit from analogue to digital migration. The deadline date was June 17, 2015. It was a date agreed to by ITU and member ...

The switch from analogue to digital transmission could turn out disastrous after it emerged that Signet Uganda, the company that is currently distributing digital signals, has not been officially allowed to operate. 

Representatives Decry Slow Pace of Digital Migration
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Zanzibar — MEMBERS of the Zanzibar House of Representatives have expressed dissatisfaction with the analogue-to-digital migration project in the isles. The migration project is being implemented by AGAPE Associates of Dar es Salaam, which won the ...

Reps decry slow pace of digital migration
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MEMBERS of the Zanzibar House of Representatives have expressed dissatisfaction with the analogue-to-digital migration project in the isles. The migration project is being implemented by AGAPE Associates of Dar es Salaam, which won the tender by ...

The government must wake up to ensure that digital migration creates more jobs to Tanzanians, says the GSMA director of Spectrum & Public Policy for Africa, Mr Mortmer Hope, during a recent interview with BusinessWeek reporter Ludger Kasumuni

Dar hailed for meeting digital migration deadline
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TANZANIA and other Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states have been commended for switching to Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) before the June 2015 deadline set by International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

>Unquestionably, Tanzania has done much in expediting information communication technology (ICT) development countrywide. It has also reduced to a considerable extent the cost of services towards improving affordability of ICT services. There are key ICT developments that could be discerned.

And so, let me throw in my two pennies worth in the Kenya digital migration debate now that the brass knuckles have come out.