South Africa will today officially miss the international deadline to turn off analogue broadcast and shift to a digital television era.

The deadline, set by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in 2006, affects all the countries around the world that signed the Geneva conference.

Migrating to digital television was meant to free up more spectrum as the new technology is more efficient, which would help SA meet its aims of ubiquitous broadband by 2020.

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