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The National Communications Institute of Mozambique (NCIM) has officially launched a public tender to select a company to manage the migration from analogue to digital TV broadcasting. The tender is open to both local and international bidders. Interested parties should submit their bids before the deadline of 10 August.
Mozambique has opted for the DVB-T2 standard and the new deadline for implementation is 31 December 2016.
Victor Mbebe, Chairperson of the public operator of the digital television network TMT, has doubted that the new deadline will be met. Speaking at AIM in Beijing, during the sixth seminar on the development of digital television in Africa, he said: “from the point of view of ending analogue broadcasting this deadline will not be met” – just as the earlier deadline of 17 June 2015, set by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), had also been missed”.
But by December, Mbebe added, if everything goes according to plan, Mozambique will have all the pilot project transmitters fully functioning, and the international tender will have solved the financing issues. But this is only for television – there is still no date set for ending analogue broadcasting in radio.
In the SADC (Southern African Development Community) region, all countries except Angola have begun digital migration. Tanzania and Mauritius have completed the process, and South Africa is in the final stages.
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