Signal distribution company Sentech has a limited timeframe to install 220,000 set-top boxes for low-income households before the new analogue television switch-off deadline of March 31, 2025. This deadline was extended by three months to allow for more time for the distribution of government-subsidized set-top boxes. The distribution process relies on beneficiary registration details from the Universal Service and Access Agency of South Africa (Usaasa), which also funds the project. Despite Sentech's involvement in distribution, Usaasa remains responsible for funding, procurement, warehousing, and installation. Questions remain about the number of households requiring set-top boxes and whether there is a gap between registered households and available devices.
signal distribution company Sentech has a little over two months to distribute and install 220 000 set-top boxes to qualifying indigent households before the new analogue television switch-off deadline of 31 March 2025.the switch-off by three months – in large part to allow more time for government-subsidised set-top boxes to be distributed.
According to Sentech, it is reliant on information from the Universal Service and Access Agency of South Africa and the SOS Coalition echoed Sherrif’s sentiments, describing the situation as an “existential crisis” for the public broadcaster. “To cut its audience in this context is basically taking away its only source of revenue. This will have consequences on the thousands of jobs at the SABC, and we are facing a possibleThe threat to the SABC comes as the public broadcaster faces a funding crisis. Afterthe contentious SABC Bill from parliament last November , Malatsi cited the bill’s weakness at addressing the SABC’s funding model as one of his reasons for doing so.
“We have to get the question around the funding model for the SABC right. There is broad acknowledgement that the bill as it stands does not answer that, so why proceed with it?” Malatsi said in an
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