2021-w1178 - 02 July 2021

Zakhele Njabulo Mbhele to ask the Minister of Communications and Digital Techgnologies

With regard to the broadcast digital migration project, what (a) total number of households (i) have been identified as requiring state assistance, through subsidies or otherwise, to migrate from analogue to digital broadcast signal reception and (ii) that were identified have already been migrated to date in each province, (b) are the cumulative monthly household broadcast migration targets in each province until the envisaged completion of the project and (c) are the (i) allocated budgets for the project and (ii) anticipated shortfalls in relation to the specified household migration targets in each province?

Reply from the Minister of Communications and Digital Techgnologies on 2 Jul 2021

I have been advised by the Department as follows:-

(a)(i) See table below. The data provided below is from StatsSA and has a margin of +/- 15% accuracy - noting the dynamic circumstances of households that proceed to voluntarily migrate via the existing commercial digital broadcast platforms. The Department used data from StatsSA as a reference point for planning.

PROVINCE

BASELINE:

 

ESTIMATED SUBSIDY ...

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