Minister of Communications and Digitalisation
Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, the minister of communications, has warned that if broadcasters do not pay for the use of the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) network, television signals will be cut off starting in the following year.
She disclosed that not a single broadcaster on the DTT platform receives anything for their usage, and she further stated that this cannot go on.
"None of the broadcasters on the DTT platform pay for using it as I speak and this situation cannot continue in our current economic state," she said during her Monday, December 11 speech on the floor of Parliament.
"GIBA is not a broadcaster hosted on this platform," she continued. Therefore, I'm not sure what role they would be playing. It is incorrect to say that any member being hosted on the DTT platform has paid for it, as they have constituent members who are broadcasters on the platform, none of whom have paid a pesewa for their hosting to date.
"If the government doesn't pay for it, we might not be able to receive TV broadcast signals because the platform will be shut down for not paying the operational expenses it is incurred with," the Minister of Communication said. "The government says it can't continue to pay for it."