https://zimbabwe.misa.org State of Broadcasting and Digital Migration in the Region • Households that earn less than R3 200 are set to get STBs for free upon registration. The government subsidy program targets to supply free decoders to about 5 million households • As at March 2020 only 1 109 965 households had registered to get free STBs. A massive 3 590 035 were yet to register. More than 400 000 STBs and antennas from the initial batch of 1.5 million were still piled in warehouses across the country waiting to be given to qualifying registered households and the target of 5 million households was still way off. Analogue Switch Off and Digital Dividend Spectrum licencing • 18 high power analogue sites have been switched off • The Square kilometre Array (SKA) region in the Northern Cape has been cleared from all analogue transmissions • Policy direction was published in July 2019 to enable the regulator to begin licencing the 700800 MHz dividend spectrum Household connection Approach to achieve Analogue Switch Off by 2021 Phase 1: to complete installations for existing subsidy stock through local government collaboration. The local government has been mandated to carry out the following tasks: • Registration of qualifying households • Distribution of STBs • Installation of STBs and antennas • Post installation support a. Phase 2: A combined industry wide participation and direct government limited procurement through: • Promotion of mass decoder availability and integrated digital TVs • Implementation approach based on early digital dividend spectrum release • Supplement with existing commercial products 15