Nigeria’s National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) said the government will be releasing NGN 30 billion for the country's digital switchover (DSO). NBC director-general Ishaq Kawu said the funds will be released in two batches of NGN 15 billion each. Kawu said that the amount will be repaid using money made from frequencies to be auctioned. Kawu said that the commission had wrapped up the digital mapping of the country, to ensure an effective DSO rollout.
Kawu said that for the past three months, the NBC had been in discussions with a South Korean company concerning the procurement of Set Top Boxes (STB). He said that the firm had agreed to produce one million STBs in Nigeria and that this would be a significant development for Nigeria in terms of being able to roll out in Lagos, Port-Harcourt and Kano, which are the three major economic and population centres in Nigeria.
