In Africa, Kenya and Tanzania were reported to have met the deadline. Dr Fenella Mukangara,Tanzania's Minister of Information and Communication, Youths and Sports, said Tanzania had made good progress since 2006 when the decision was made by ITU.Among the countries which failed to meet the deadline are Albania, Algeria, Angola, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Benin, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Colombia, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon and Gambia. Others are Georgia, Ghana, Guinea, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mali, Mexico, Montenegro, Myanmar, Niger, Oman, Papua New Guinea, Romania, Russian Federation, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, South Sudan, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland and Thailand. Togo, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Armenia, Bangladesh, Belize, Central African Republic, Comoros, Egypt, Eritrea, Guinea-Bissau, Jamaica, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Moldova, Morocco, Namibia, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Turkey could also not meet the deadline.Though the ITU did not in the statement say what it would do to countries which failed to meet the deadline, the NBC, had on Tuesday stated that, "the main penalty Nigeria will face is that analogue signals will receive no protection in the event of interference with or from digital signals from our neighbours, most of who are also unable to transit to digital."Communication experts said the failure of the Nigerian government to effect the migration could mean that up to 80 per cent of Nigerians would be cut off should the ITU direct automatic switch-over to digital broadcasting.There are also concerns about a potential ITU sanction, as well as Nigerian television stations not being able to broadcast foreign digital content.To deal with this, Mba disclosed that the NBC was holding talks with relevant bodies, including the Economic Community for West African States (ECOWAS) and the ITU. It is believed the Commission will also unveil contingency plans to deal with the potential effects of the switch-over. The NBC Director-General explained that failure to meet the ITU deadline was due to non-availability of the required funds to complete the digital migration exercise, despite efforts by the Commission over the past nine years to convince the Nigerian government to consider the ITU-directed digital migration as very important.He said, "NBC, through internally generated money from within the broadcast industry, was able to set the roadmap for the actualisation of digital migration and provided some skeletal infrastructure that will help drive the exercise, while awaiting the release of funds by government. But the funds are yet to be released three weeks to the June 15, 2015 deadline given to Nigeria by ITU to migrate from analogue to digital broadcasting".Mba expatiated that Nigeria will be able to migrate by the new deadline, if the required fund of approximately N60 billion is made available.
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