Zimbabwe Lags Behind the Digitization
Zimbabwe will become more and more likely a Community (SADC) 2013 deadline miss the South Africa Development for its radio and television, Zimbabwean news agency reported ziana New digitizing quoting an official as saying on Sunday. The 14 lidgroep from analog to digital radio and television agreed to migrate to quality, among other benefits improve.
But the Broadcasting Authority chief executive officer of Obert Muganyura of Zimbabwe (BAZ) said Zimbabwe far behind other countries due to lack of public funding for the project behind. At least U.S. $ 15 million is required for the complete switch over from analogue to digital services.
But the Ministry of Finance issued even a penny for the project in the national budget this year. M. Muganyura said in the SADC region, Zimbabwe was the only country that had yet to begin digitizing. “Tanzania, Botswana and Mauritius have fully …. gedigitaliseerdZambia, Mozambique and Namibia lead testing, while South Africa is now 63 percent, “he said. He said in addition to the digitization deadline, fought the authority to existing analog stations operational. “We are supposed to be 24 other posts in the digitization sera but we have not even started to install one and we are left with one year,” he said.
By order of the analog to digital broadcast of risk severe penalties, he said, Zimbabwe to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) do not succeed to switch.
M. Muganyura said the lack of compliance meant the country would receive no protection from ITU. “The country will also suffer interference from neighboring countries with stronger signals,” he said. Except that a legal requirement to digitize, said Mr. Muganyura the country ‘sunset technology’. is used. He said BAZ already problems in getting spare parts for the analog broadcasting material faced as it was outdated. “No companies still manufacture the type of material we are using,” he said.
The process of analogue to digital broadcasting switch was installed in 2000 and 2015 by ITU was approved as international migration deadline. SADC Member States places 2013 as their deadline to ensure that all related global challenges before the cut off date to be overcome.