The Department of Communications has published a list of all the companies who submitted proposals for Request For Information: DTT Set-Top Box (STB) Production by local manufacturing companies.
A total of 36 bids have been received in the Department of Communications’ (DoC's) quest to source a company for the local manufacturing of set-top boxes (STBs) required for South Africa’s digital migration.
This followed the DoC’s request for information from local manufacturing companies for digital terrestrial television (DTT) STB production.
Potential manufacturers had until April 30 to respond.
The government aimed to subsidise STBs for about five-million households that were unable to afford STBs. This was estimated to cost about R2.45-billion.
Subsidisation qualification criteria were currently being finalised by the Universal Service and Access Agency of South Africa for the qualifying television-owning households.
The DoC claimed there were about 11.5-million television-owning households in South Africa, of which 72% rely on free-to-air broadcasting services.
The local manufacture of STBs is the second phase of a three-phase project, which included the simultaneous roll-out of physical broadcasting network equipment and the distribution of STBs.
The DoC said it would launch digital migration in the third quarter of this year and the analogue transmission would be switched off on December 31, 2013, after which analogue television sets would require an STB to receive the digital broadcast signal.
Source: http://www.doc.gov.za; http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/bids-pour-in-for-stb-manufacture-tender-2012-05-10
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