Charity Nnaji
Alhaji Nazif Mohammed,
the Commissioner for Information, Plateau State has said users of set top boxes
of the pilot switch-over from analogue to digital transmission risk blackout
after April 30.
About 420,000 boxes that
would last for one year, at the onset of the switch-over on April 30, 2016, were
given out to the public for free, according to NAN.
Mohammed told newsmen on
Monday in Jos that interested users must pay N1,500 access fee or face blackout
at the expiration of the one year free service. The set top boxes can only work
free of charge for one year after which an access fee of N1,500 per year should
be paid,” he said.
He said that government
provided 200,000 set top boxes free of charge to the people of Plateau, while
other people bought the boxes from distributors at a subsidised fee.
“It is almost one year now and we want to
inform the general public that by the end of this month, 129 boxes will have
total blackout unless they are recharged. Such blackout will continue till
November 2017 when all free set top boxes will be deactivated if their owners
did not pay the access fee.”
The commissioner further
explained that those using the set top boxes could establish when theirs would
expire by pressing the menu button, and stressed the need for people to know
when theirs would go off.
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