The date is historic for the Beninese authorities. This Friday, February 17 marks the official launch of digital terrestrial television in Benin, a flagship project of the program d’action of the government of Patrice Talon. The country, like most states in sub-Saharan Africa, made a commitment in 2006 to switch from analogue to digital terrestrial broadcasting in 2015. A deadline then postponed until 2020.
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Thanks to an initial partnership with the Chinese StarTimes, the Beninese government has already installed THE equipment for collecting, transmitting and broadcasting digital signals. But it will have been necessary to wait until 2020 for the executive to settle the question of the methods of placing digital decoders for receiving DTT on the market. The realization of the project has long stalled on this crucial point.
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