That date‚ according to a statement from Muthambi’s office‚ will see
the International Telecommunications Union ceasing to protect analogue
users from signal interference.

“However‚ Muthambi and her Digital
Migration Programme Management Office (DTT-PMO)‚ have conducted a risk
mitigation analysis which has established that the most immediate
television signal interference threat would come from outside the
borders of the country‚” the statement said.