After many delayed starts and renewed deadlines, Communications Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said the television broadcast digital migration process is set to meet the 31 March 2022 deadline that President Cyril Ramaphosa announced during his State of the Nation Address in February.
Ntshavheni said 1.1 million qualifying households out of an estimated 3.7 million beneficiary households were registered for the migration process.
She said the broadcast digital migration (BDM) programme was about halfway through to reaching all targeted households.
“Since the inception of the BDM programme, 556 954 beneficiary households have been migrated from the current total of 1.184 million. In addition, almost 10.5 million households out of just over 14 million TV households self-migrated through private satellite boxes,” said Ntshavheni.
Ntshavheni said DSTV helped with the “self-migration” of 7.8 million households, while OpenViewHD facilitated 2.3 million households, and StarSat facilitated 450 000 households.
“To date, Sentech has been able to
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