Zimbabwe: Govt Invests U.S.$46 Million in Digitisation

22 November 2016

Government has invested $46 million in the ZimDigital project that will see 80 percent of the country receiving radio and television transmission signals upon completion. Transmedia chief executive Mrs Florence Sigudu Matambo told guests attending the inaugural celebrations of International Day for Universal Access to Information in Harare last Friday that Zimbabwe had also complied with the International Telecommunications Union digitisation deadline.

Said Mrs Matambo: "The digitisation process really focuses on television. The ZimDigital project is a national project which is really a mammoth project for us in the Ministry of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services and we have been availed funding to make sure that we run this project.

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