However, this is only supposed to be a temporary arrangement. The digital migration project still needs another $142.4 million to cover the outstanding costs of the project.
Seeing that government is cash strapped right now, the funding is expected to come from the disposal of the digital dividend spectrum which was created through the migration from analogue to digital migration.
While delivering the 2016 Mid-Term Fiscal Policy Statement the Minister of Finance Patrick Chinamasa highlighted that this disposal will be carried out by the Ministry of ICT.
Under the direction of Supa Mandiwanzira, the ICT Ministry is expected to identify a buyer for the spectrum with enough resources to ensure that the digital migration project is completed.
This is probably the latest example of how these two ministries have dovetailing functions due to the relationship between technology and media.
The spectrum is being managed by the telecoms regulator, POTRAZ.
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