prof800:
"You know that your federal govt is not too foolish to impose such law."?
Are you sure about that?

matify:
Una never see anything yet!

The proposed TV license fee will be very eeeeasy to collect once the country migrates to full digitization.

With digitization, there won't be free terrestrial stations to watch anymore hence we all have to subscribe to pay Tv be it Gotv, DSTV, star time etc and its at the point of renewing your monthly subscription that you will be charged for license fee in addition to your preferred bouquet plan which shall be remitted to the FG for content improvement and other sundry issues.

In the event you fail to buy a setup box( decoder) for your TV, all you will be restricted to is watching pirated series movie on your dvd player.

FG has finally caught up with us just like they are exploiting us with the service charge we pay with or without power monthly to our DISCOs.

Obiagelli: pay to sponsor Nta? God forbid. All this government knows how to do is make people pay more for nothing. Phcn, fuel, Npa, Custom duty, Faan and many more.

Suarezilla: Chai!..the only free gbaladu remaining in Nigeria has been privatized.Ooops...thank God dem nevr remembr to copy Western tax for parking YOUR own car for YOUR own house!

chiteny: I wonder how them want to implement this law? People go waka from house to house to collect the fees?

Person wey waka by himself enter my house say na NTA fee him wan collect go hear am by himself. I go just raise alarm say thief dey my house, i go send bingo to welcome am, then escort bingo with my pump action. Thunder fire monkey!!

Which kind country be this sef?

naptu2: I predicted this a little over 15 years ago and it has come to pass.

In the mid/late 1990s, shortwave radio stations were discussing the impact of the transition to digital radio on shortwave radio broadcasting. They talked about a set date in which all radio and television stations will have to switch over to digital broadcasting. Owners of analogue televisions will have to buy a set-top box (decoder) to convert digital signals into analogue format. I thought to myself, "that will be the end of 'free to air' broadcasting in Nigeria".

Basically, digital broadcasting makes it possible to use bandwidth more efficiently. For example, the FM radio frequency is from 88mghz to 180mghz. On some radios, Cool FM 96.9, Classic FM 97.3 and Metro FM 97.7 all interfere with each other. There's also a limit to the number of radio stations you can have in Lagos, because they have to be allocated frequencies in the 88mghz to 180mghz range. Digital broadcasting does not have that problem. You can have 500 stations on Lagos Island and they would not interfere with each other.

So the international deadline for all countries to switch to digital broadcasting (especially stations that are close to international borders) is June 2015. Multichoice made the switch in the late 1990s/early 2000s. That's why we have DSTV (Digital Satellite Television). South Africa as a whole made the switch in the early 2000s. The question is, when will Nigeria migrate to digital tv and radio?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_television_transition

There have been uncountable seminars on this subject since 1999. The NTA and FRCN commissioned many brand new stations between 2000-2003 and Raymond Dokpesi attacked Ben Murray-Bruce for this. "How can you be commissioning analogue transmitters when the whole world is going digital by 2015?"

Frank Nweke Jr, in the mid 2000s, said that people should not panic about the transition. He said that the government would provide set-top boxes for free for Nigerians that cannot afford them. "Nigeria is on course for the transition to digital broadcasting". I laughed.

Now it's been confirmed. You'll have to pay to watch tv or listen to the radio in Nigeria (or as David Mark said in the 1980s, "Telephones are not for the poor" ).


https://www.nairaland.com/1800534/youll-soon-pay-watch-free

50calibre: Nigeria is a fo*lish country, the politicians occupy themselves with thoughts of how to fleece the ordinary man of his hard earned money.

The days of TV licensing in the UK are numbered, it's becoming unfeasible to enforce it, given the rise in mobile technology, People now watch television on their mobile devices.

Nigerians should learn to emulate good aspects of foreign culture, not the obsolete ones. Looking at NTA, it's hard to believe is TV station of the 21st century, it looks like something straight out of the 70s.