SA's chances to compete in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and drive future economic growth are being hampered by the delay.
FILE PICTURE: The Sentech, or Brixton, tower in Johannesburg. Picture: Gallo Images/Foto24.
During a portfolio committee meeting on communications last week, Ndabeni-Abrahams said that completely switching off from analogue TV to DTT had the potential to destroy the public broadcaster, SABC, and its signal distribution company Sentech. Jacqui O’Sullivan, executive for corporate affairs at MTN SA, said: “It is unfortunate that the DTT migration has been delayed for so many years.“By adopting DTT, a significant amount of spectrum is made available and that could be used in the provision of mobile broadband and achieving government’s ambition of embracing the 4th Industrial Revolution ,” she added.
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