The federal government has switched on digital terrestrial television signal in Lagos, saying by December 2022 analogue television signals will no longer be available anywhere in the country.
In his keynote address, Minister of Information and culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said today’s epoch event in Lagos is the beginning of the second phase of the Digital switch over in Nigeria. “The DSO platform keys into the Lagos Smart City project. It is about creating jobs, stimulating local content and providing value added services like enforcement of of radio and television licences, push video-on demand, while regulating television viewing to Lagos residents.
“With free TV, 70 per cent of content will be local. At the end of the day ordinary Nigerians will be be able to have access to affordable digital television. There is no monthly subscription and this is welcome development to millions of Nigerians who cannot afford to pay monthly subscriptions to pay TV companies,” the Minister said.
The NBC director-general said ” when we started the rollout of the switch over three years ago, we agreed that Lagos will only be switched-on after we have done testing with other cities. We have licenced 13 companies in various areas to play important roles in the digital terrestrial television in Nigeria. We have companies manufacturing and assembling set top boxes. Digitisation of broadcasting brings huge opportunities to the economy.
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