Thailand’s National Broadcasting & Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) says it will issue its second batch of digital TV vouchers on November 21st to more than 3 million homes. The first batch of vouchers, which went to low-earning families, were issued on October 10th and can be used to buy set-top boxes or as part-payment on new […]
Net Insight, a provider of efficient and scalable transport solutions for media, IP and broadcast networks, has announced that the national telecommunications operator Antel in Uruguay has selected the company’s Nimbra solution for a nationwide Digital Terrestrial TV (DTT) network. Antel, Uruguay’s government-owned telecommunications company is preparing to build a new national DTT network that […]
Montenegro’s Agency for Electronic Media has announced a tender for the access rights to the first national DVB-T2 multiplex (Mux 1). In line with the Plan for the Allocation of Radio Frequencies for Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting, the DVB-T2 multiplex will be transmitted in four so-called “allotment areas” (Bjelasica – channel 43, Lovcen – channel 35, […]
In a strategic bid to offer customers more robust and improved digital television experience, Nigerian digital pay-TV provider StarTimes has unveiled nine new television channels across its StarTimes and StarSat platforms. The channels will also be enjoyed for free for seven days by customers across all subscription bouquets on StarTimes in an Open Week programme […]
Figures released by South Africa’s National Treasury suggest that the country’s postponed migration to digital TV is continuing to cost hundreds of millions of Rand. The migration from analogue to digital terrestrial television featured prominently in the Budget Vote for Communications following the release of South Africa’s medium-term budget policy statement. It was highlighted that […]
Tanzania says it is on track to switch off its analogue TV transmissions before the ITU deadline of June 2015, and it will be one of the first African countries to shift entirely to digital broadcasting. Tanzania’s Minister for Communication, Science and Technology, Professor Makame Mbarawa, told the ITU 2014 Plenipotentiary Conference that the country […]
Industry standards switching to HD, the need to comply with the digital switchover date in Brazil, its web-oriented workflow, together with the rapid changes in the broadcast technology industry, have made it essential to develop a project that would allow TV Educativa de Porto Alegre to move from analogue to digital work, from linear to […]
Serbia’s government says that around 38 per cent of homes in the country will have to buy a new digital set-top box because their TV sets are not suitable for digital TV reception. Serbia’s Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Tatjana Matic said the upcoming changes to all-digital broadcasting would impact 800,000 – 1 million […]
The SABER Project has called upon the members of the EU and their regional governments to implement co-ordinated Regional Voucher Schemes to encourage awareness and take-up of satellite broadband solutions to cut the Digital Divide across Europe’s most rural regions. According to June 2014 Digital Agenda Scoreboard up to 6 million EU houses are still […]
The Spanish Government will pay the bill for readjusting DTT aerials on around one million buildings. The retuning must take place before the end of the year as a result of the allocation of the digital dividend to 4G operators. The Government estimates that the total cost to readjust the aerials will be €286 million […]