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Local STBs manufacturing 'enhances SA leadership position in technology'

7 Jun 2012

Launching - in partnership with South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) - the set-top-box (STB) decoder standard for free-to-air digital terrestrial television at the ICT Indaba, Minister of Communications Dina Pule said the local manufacturing of set-top boxes (STBs), as part of the rollout of Digital Terrestrial Television, would "enhance the country's leadership position in technology... through the greater investment in innovation," The New Age reports.

Local STBs manufacturing 'enhances SA leadership position in technology'

Pule added she expects that this strategy "will result in the creation of many jobs across the continent as factories go up to manufacture the boxes." The STBs would be needed to receive a digital signal on old-style analogue broadcast television sets. "South Africa's information technology sector," she said "is a leader in the fields of electronic banking services, pre-payment, revenue management and fraud prevention systems, and in the manufacture of set-top boxes (STBs)." Digital migration is expected to be completed by June 2015, The New Age says.

Read the full article on www.thenewage.co.za.