Mozambique complied with the recommendation of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), to switch off the analog signal for the digital one, a step that should have been taken in 2015, which was not possible for financial and structural reasons.

Thus, the digital migration process has just been completed in the country, with the switch-off, on December 31, of all analog broadcasting and television transmitters.

Subsequently, the deadline was extended to 2017 and then to 2019. However, it was only last year that the digital television signal was officially launched in the country.

Victor Mbeve, Chairman of the Board of Directors (PCA) of the Transmission and Multiplexing Transmission (TMT) company, called the process, which lasted 10 years, a positive one, despite the difficulties faced during the implementation of the project.

"As a continent, we should have completed the shutdown as the ICU recommended, but we had this drag, which is now behind us, since the digital network is operational throughout the country," Mbeve said.

Mbeve stressed that a large part of the population has joined the process, to the extent that more than 400,000 decoders have been sold. He added that TMT still registers a lot of demand for the devices.

"Now consumers have a wide range of choices of better quality content, in terms of image and sound. TMT platform users have 22 channels offered for free," he said.

The digital migration took place in two phases, the first covering analog transmitters located in the provinces of Nampula, Tete, and Maputo City.

The second and last phase was implemented in Massinga, Marromeu, Monapo, Ribáuè, Namialo, Ilha do Ibo, Chiúre, Mandimba, Majune, Ngauma, Lago, Zóbuè and Songo.