Nigeria follows UK's example with pioneering free digital TV service
by Ruth Maclean West Africa correspondent from Technology | The Guardian on (#1PY9T)
FreeTV to offer subsidised set-top boxes model to drive migration to digital TV and free up spectrum for mobile networks
Nigeria will be the first African country to switch from analogue to free digital television - and it is looking to a small British company to roll it out.
Although several other African countries - including Rwanda and Tanzania - have migrated to digital and switched off their analogue signals, they work on a subscription model, so consumers have to pay.