Malawi misses digital migration deadline for SADC countries

Malawi government authorities are indicating that the country will fail to meet the December 31, 2013 digital switchover deadline set by the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Digital migration is the process of transition from analogue to Digital broadcasting to ensure improved television service reception in terms of coverage and quality of both picture and sound. Reasons […]

Malawi gets first consignment of digital migration

As Malawi is preparing to move from analogue to digital broadcasting, on Tuesday the first consignment of the digital migration equipment arrived in the country through the Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) in Lilongwe. The equipment which is worth $1.7 million (K678.7 million) includes computer software as well as the hardware gadgets. Ministry of Information’s Digital […]

Malawi awards Huawei of China $5m digital migration contract

]Malawi government has offered a $5 million (about K1.7 billion) digital migration contract to a Chinese Company Huawei Technologies to install and commission Malawi’s Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT), Nyasa Times has learnt. Huawei confirmed on their website to have won the contract to install Malawi’s DTT equipment to enable the country to switch to digital […]