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Lack of political willpower and shortage of fund both connived to deny Nigeria the dream of meeting the digital migration deadline of June 17.

“The country’s leaders demonstrated no commitment and provided no fund to actualize the target,” the Head of the DigiTeam, Edward Amana, told the global audience that attended the just ended CTO Forum in Abuja.

Nigeria plans a new target date of December 2017 but that will only be feasible if the new national government now led by the former opposition party commits funding and willpower to the process.

Not only Nigeria failed to meet the June 17 switchover date set by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) for member countries to migrate from analogue to digital broadcasting. Virtually all of Nigeria’s neighbours within the ECOWAS also failed to meet the deadline which has provided a somewhat soft landing for  Africa’s biggest economy to work towards the 2017 new date.

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) which is responsible for country’s switch programme said the inability of Nigeria’s neighbours to meet the deadline has provided some sort of grace. The NBC notes on its website:

“In the digital broadcast environment, digital transmitters are protected from interference from signals coming from analogue transmitters.  Therefore the main consequence is that if our analogue transmitters should interfere with the signals of any digital broadcast in any of our neighbouring countries, we can be forced by the ITU to shut down our own analogue transmitters. If, however, a digital transmission from any of our neighbours should interfere with any analogue broadcast in Nigeria, we do not get any protection.  However, the chances of any of that happening are very slim since none of our neighbours is likely to meet the date.”


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I read it carefully, but still didn't get the relevance of this that should make it top priority

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DesChyko:
I read it carefully, but still didn't get the relevance of this that should make it top priority

the world switched from analogue to digital on the 17th, it means you won't be able to watch your local tv stations again without a set box(decoder). Nigeria failed to meet this deadline because so many Nigerians still don't have access to this boxes...the government is trying though with startimes stuffs. But we are not the only one in the region that couldn't switch over, the new date is now 2017. Kapishe?







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How cluelessness is made to thrive on nairaland. In a country we're the masses earn within a range of 20-25k u xpect dem to adopt pay tv. This is not USA. U western ass lickers. Nigeria is filled with poor ppl. Ppl can barely pay for essentials bills like electricity, waste and water u want them to pay for luxuries. Ur chanji movt should stop being delusional.

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the world switched from analogue to digital on the 17th, it means you won't be able to watch your local tv stations again without a set box(decoder). Nigeria failed to meet this deadline because so many Nigerians still don't have access to this boxes...the government is trying though with startimes stuffs. But we are not the only one in the region that couldn't switch over, the new date is now 2017. Kapishe?







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Capisce. Yes Sir.
Thank you for that enlightenment