ConCourt sets aside switch-off date for move from analogue to digital broadcasting

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The Constitutional Court on Tuesday declared that the announcement of March 31 2022 as the final switch-off date of the analogue signal and the end of dual illumination is unconstitutional and invalid, and set it aside.

period in which both analogue and digital terrestrial television signals are allowed to be transmitted.The court also declared that the decision of the minister of communications and digital technologies to impose a deadline of October 31 2021 to register for set-top boxes was unconstitutional, is invalid and is set aside.

On October 5 2021, the minister announced a deadline for the set-top box registration, which was October 31 2021. It would be just and equitable to leave the implementation of this judgment to the minister to determine the analogue switch-off date in a manner that is consistent with the prescripts of legalityBefore the high court, the applicants alleged that about 2.58-million qualifying households, comprising more than 8-million people, would not have migrated by the analogue switch-off date.

 

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