{{Rwanda failed to switch off the analogue broadcasting system on December 31, 2012 to meet the deadline set by the East African Community (EAC) member states.}}
The Rwanda Utility and Regulatory Authority (RURA) said that Rwanda failed to meet deadline due to lack of investors to provide digital TV decoders which is an adaptor converting digital TV signal into analog TV signal.
Jean Baptiste Mutabazi in charge of Communications and Media in RURA urges people with ability to provide decoders to Rwandans noting that it is impossible to migrate from analogue to digital without decoders.
Mutabazi told a vernacular newspaper “Izuba rirashe” that telecommunication towers have been installed countrywide and what is remaining is to set deadline for Rwandans to buy decoders to convert signals.
It said RURA will not end this January, 2013 without giving deadline.
The world targets 2015 to have countries switch to digital technology, but the EAC countries to meet the objective was by December 31st 2012.
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