digital broadcasting - Uganda Multimedia News & Information https://www.weinformers.com Politics, Health, Sceince, Business, Agriculture, Culture, Tourism, Women, Men, Oil, Sports Tue, 19 May 2015 07:19:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 Digital Migration: UCC approves 15 firms to sale Free-to-Air Set Top Boxes https://www.weinformers.com/2015/05/19/digital-migration-ucc-approves-15-firms-to-sale-free-to-air-set-top-boxes/ https://www.weinformers.com/2015/05/19/digital-migration-ucc-approves-15-firms-to-sale-free-to-air-set-top-boxes/#respond Tue, 19 May 2015 07:07:04 +0000 http://www.weinformers.net/?p=40903 As the deadline for switching from Analogue to Digital broadcasting moves closer, Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) has licensed 15 firms to import, sale and distribute Free-to-Air (FTA) Set Top Boxes. The firms include Brivid Uganda Ltd, Widestar Digital (U) Ltd, Mac Viva Global Holdings Ltd, BIT Technologies (U) Ltd, Future Electronics (U) Ltd, Icomsys Africa […]

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]]> As the deadline for switching from Analogue to Digital broadcasting moves closer, Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) has licensed 15 firms to import, sale and distribute Free-to-Air (FTA) Set Top Boxes.

The firms include Brivid Uganda Ltd, Widestar Digital (U) Ltd, Mac Viva Global Holdings Ltd, BIT Technologies (U) Ltd, Future Electronics (U) Ltd, Icomsys Africa Ltd, eWorld Technologies Limited.

Others are;

  • Kagadi Technical Services
  • Visual Consult Uganda Ltd
  • Roise de Classe (U) Ltd
  • Trans-African Container
  • Space Digital Technology Ltd
  • Green PowerSolutions
  • URI Trading Company.

According to UCC Media Relations Specialist, Isaac Kalembe, the Commission provided space to these operators at Communications House (Ground Floor) to sell their Set Top Boxes (STB) but only three companies – Brevid, Mac Viva and e-World have taken up the offer.

Having a Free to Air set top box means that there are no monthly subscriptions, there is only one time pay at time of purchase of the set top box and one can receive all the Free to Air channels; the channels being watched now on analogue TV before the digital migration.

The process of switching off the analogue signal in Uganda is expected to be complete by June 10th 2015. After that, all TV viewers in Uganda will need to have a set-top-box (STB) for every analogue TV or use a digital TV in order to receive television services.

Migration from analogue to digital broadcasting refers to the process in which the analogue TV broadcasting services are converted to and replaced by digital television broadcasting.
At the end of the migration period, the analogue broadcasting services are eventually broadcast in digital format while the analogue transmitters are switched off.
The list below shows licensed operators/Vendors as compiled by the TNS Department.

UCC STB Vendors List – May 13, 2015

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]]> https://www.weinformers.com/2015/05/19/digital-migration-ucc-approves-15-firms-to-sale-free-to-air-set-top-boxes/feed/ 0 Government to subsidise top set boxes for digital TV migration https://www.weinformers.com/2011/11/23/government-to-subsidise-top-set-boxes-for-digital-tv-migration/ https://www.weinformers.com/2011/11/23/government-to-subsidise-top-set-boxes-for-digital-tv-migration/#respond Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:37:46 +0000 http://www.weinformers.net/?p=16886 The government is proposing to waive taxes on top set boxes that viewers will need to watch TV as the country moves towards switching off analog to digital broadcasting. The world’s switch off deadline will be in 2015 with countries having to transfer from analog broadcasting to digital technology though East African member states agreed […]

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]]> The government is proposing to waive taxes on top set boxes that viewers will need to watch TV as the country moves towards switching off analog to digital broadcasting.

The world’s switch off deadline will be in 2015 with countries having to transfer from analog broadcasting to digital technology though East African member states agreed to December 31st 2012.

The state minister for information and communication technology Nyombi Tembo says the proposal is aimed at making the top set boxes affordable for every citizen.

He was speaking today at the common market for Eastern and southern African meeting on digital migration in Kampala.

Tembo says the proposal is still being debated by all stakeholders although he expressed hope that it will go through so that the top set boxes can cost at most 50,000 shillings. These will be needed for anyone to capture TV signals and have more channels.

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