Stakeholders
and concerned Malawians have raised concerns over the slow pace at which the
company handling digital migration in the country is going about the process, ITRealms
reports.
This
is even as Malawi's government has stressed urgency in beating the June 2015
digital migration deadline set by the International Telecommunications Union
(ITU).
Malawian
government, earlier set up a company called the 'Malawi Digital Broadcasting
Network' to be responsible for the switchover.
ITRealms gathered that Malawi's minister of
information, Kondwani Nankhumwa, disclosed that while the company has already
named a board of directors, the company is still not operational and the board,
yet to meet with him.
Also
ITRealms checks indicate that the Malawian government
also claims it has put in place all the necessary technical requirements for
the switchover but that the uptake of set top boxes (STBs) by Malawians has not
been sufficient.
"I
will make sure that the company starts work so that it should take over all the
activities to do with digital migration so that Malawi meets the deadline on
the completion of the process," Nankhumwa said.
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