Nigerian govt gives deadline for final analogue TV switch-off

The Federal Government has fixed December 2028 arsenic the deadline for last modulation from analogue to integer tv broadcasting.

The Director-General, National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, Mr Charles Ebuebu, made this known successful an interrogation with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, successful Abuja.

Ebuebu said the December 2028 deadline marks the last analogue switch-off.

“We enactment a timeline for analogue switch-off. Before that time, a batch of things volition beryllium enactment successful place. This is conscionable signifier one,” helium said.

He said consequent phases would screen paid tv services, workplace improvement and designated accumulation centres for contented creators.

The NBC brag said assemblage measurement was besides progressing, with a impervious of conception completed successful astir 7,000 homes successful Lagos, portion implementation had commenced successful Abuja.

According to him, the committee volition marque the phases nationalist aft consultations with cardinal stakeholders, including the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria, to unafraid their buy-in.

He said the analogue switch-off would escaped up invaluable spectrum for different uses, describing it arsenic a strategical nationalist asset.

Ebuebu said the spectrum volition beryllium professionally valued earlier allocation to users specified arsenic telecommunications, exertion and fiscal services companies.

“I won’t enactment a sum to it, but it is valued upwards of a...