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DTT set-top box registration to start in Northern Cape

29th September 2015

By: Natasha Odendaal

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

  

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The first household registrations for the subsidised set-top boxes (STBs) required for South Africa’s digital terrestrial television (DTT) platform would start on Thursday for communities within the region of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope in the Northern Cape, the Department of Communications said on Tuesday.

With analogue television transmissions in the area set to be replaced by digital transmissions from January 1, 2016, the department planned to distribute around 16 000 STBs to the households in the districts that formed part of the region in which the SKA project would be hosted.

The SKA area had been identified as the starting point for the long-awaited DTT transition as the analogue television transmissions interfered with the signals received by the SKA telescope. As this was a compulsory switchover for the area, all households qualified for a subsidised decoder, Communications Minister Faith Muthambi said.

Households in Brandvlei, Britstown, Calvinia, Carnavon, Fraserburg, Groblershoop, Kakamas, Keimoes, Kenhardt, Loeriesfontein, Marydale, Nieuwoudtville, Pofadder, Springbok, Sutherland, Vanwyksvlei, Victoria West and Williston would need to apply for a STB at the local Post Office.

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