Global pay-TV leader, MultiChoice is sponsoring a conference for the Information Communication Technology (ICT) ministers of Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS), DigitalSENSE Business News reports.
The sub-regional ICT ministers conference is expected to adopt a common implementation plan for digital transition to beat the June 2015 deadline set by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
The Manager, Engineering at Ghana’s regulator, the National Communications Authority of Ghana, Mr Edmund Yirenkyi Fianko disclosed this while making his presentation at the Digital Dialogue Conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirate (UAE), noting that the ICT ministers will meet in Banjul, Gambia to approve protocols and specifications on digital transmitters and set-top boxes that will be imported by countries within the region for the migration from analogue to digital broadcasting.
DigitalSENSE Business News gathered that the conference which is the third will dwell on the character set specifications of the set-top boxes in order for it to properly decode programme and station names in each country’s local languages.
It was further discovered by DigitalSENSE Business News at a recent meeting of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) with stakeholders in Lagos, that the set top boxes would help to receive signals from the television stations, whereas network roll-out for broadcast organisations are still being deliberated upon.
Other issues yet to be tackled includes the specifications, manufacturing, distribution, retail, price and installation of the set-top boxes as Nigeria approaches the January 15, 2015 date approved by government, giving five months to June 17, 2015 ITU deadline.
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