Over 1.5 million homes locked out two years after digital TV switch, says report

The sun rise above the TV antennas and dishes atop the Lonhro House in Nairobi in the early morning of 11th March 2015. Pictureby Jacob Otieno

Two years after the switch off of analogue television broadcast signals, more than 1.5 million homes still do not have access to the digital TV signals due to high cost of acquiring set top boxes (STBs).

A new report on digital migration in Kenya said three million households have acquired the gadgets that convert digital signals for viewing on ordinary TV sets. This is out of an estimated 4.5 million households that own a television set in the country.