As part of its long-anticipated digital switchover, DSO, program, the Federal Government has today launched set-top boxes in Lagos.
According to the government, DSO will see the country move from analogue to digital broadcasting, which has the capacity to facilitate video-on-demand, audience measurement and a better viewing experience.
It says this also means a departure from poor signal and an end to the struggle with antennas.
The set-top box, according to Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, at the launch in Lagos, does not require monthly subscriptions, except for an annual access fee of N1,500.
He says the set-top box will provide access to about sixty channels.
In his words, the switch-on of Lagos is unique and epochal, because it marks the first time that the DSO project would be beaming sixty choice channels to television households.
To him, this is not by accident, Lagos is Nigeria’s creative hub, hence it is important to harness the creative talents that abound in the state through this project.
He added that government is hopeful analogue broadcasting will be completely switched-off in the country by December next year.