SA to postpone launch of digital TV
Government will not meet its self-imposed deadline of April 2012 to switch on digital terrestrial television, says communications minister Dina Pule, who now expects services will be only be launched commercially in the third quarter of the year.
24 Jan 2012
Pule was speaking at her first media briefing since being appointed by president Jacob Zuma to the post late last year, replacing Roy Padayachie in the key portfolio.
Pule says the department and ministry have been hard at work for the past three months trying to ensure the April deadline is met, but this now appears impossible given how much must still be done before services can be launched.
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