Mozambique: Logistics corridors to transition towards specialised management - report
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The installation in Mozambique of the new digital format broadcasting network, replacing the old analogue system, is in its final phase, the government has announced.
“The country has installed 59 of the planned 60 digital broadcasting stations in the context of the migration of broadcasting” throughout the country, Transport and Communications Minister Carlos Mesquita said on Thursday.
The Mozambican Council of Ministers decided in December 2010 to adopt the DVB-T2 standard as the technological standard for digital broadcasting of open-source television, and in February 2011, the Technical Commission for the Implementation of the Migration of Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting for Digital (COMID) was created.
A report published three months ago by the Mozambican branch of the Southern African Social Communication Institute (MISA) states that “the unknown cost of transporting the television signal by TMT (Transport, Multiplexing and Transmission, the public company responsible for transmitting the signal for digital TV) to rural audiences, remains a barrier to cost-benefit planning”.
The country has about 10 television channels, including a public operator (TVM, TV de Moçambique) of which only a minority are free-to-air with analogue terrestrial television broadcasts with the capacity to reach the whole territory.
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