After completely switching off the analog signal in October 2022, the Ivorian government announced that the DTT network would provide national coverage of 94.6% of the territory.
For the remaining 5.4%, considered to be in a "white zone," the Ivorian government announced on May 3 that it intends to conduct studies to provide coverage via the DTT network.
According to government spokesperson Amadou Coulibaly, "the Council welcomed the completion of this operation, which marks the emergence of a liberalized and dynamic audiovisual market, a source of employment opportunities and prospects for young people with the arrival of new commercial channels on the national audiovisual landscape."
It should be noted that according to a 2022 report by the International Telecommunication Union, only 15 of the 54 countries on the African continent have completed their migration to digital terrestrial television: Algeria, Côte d'Ivoire, Eswatini, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zambia. Several large countries such as South Africa, Nigeria, Senegal, Cameroon, and the DRC are still in the process of migration.
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