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China financing Burundi's switch to digital broadcasting

China is financing a $40 million project to help Burundi switch to digital broadcasting from analogue by June 2015, according to the small east African nation's telecom regulator.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has set June 2015 as the deadline for the migration to switch off analogue broadcasts in several regions of the world, including Africa.

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