That Vice President Yemi Osibanjo
successfully switched on the Abuja platform at the Pinnacle Broadcast Centre,
Mpape weeks back is no longer news. What has been trending is the controversy
that trailed the activation of some of the set up boxes that were used after the
hitch-free Digital Switch Over (DSO) from analogue to digital terrestrial TV
broadcasting in Abuja.
It is on record that the contract to
produce and supply set up boxes were awarded to about seven different companies
by the Emeka Mba’s led National Broadcasting Commission (Pinnacle
Communications not included) and these companies were saddled with the activation
of the set up boxes which experienced some hiccups after the switch on.
During the commissioning of the
Pinnacle Broadcast Centre, President Muhammudu Buhari represented by Vice
President, Yemi Osinbanjo lauded the successful launch of the pilot scheme in
Jos in April, which he said has clearly demonstrated the gains of digitization,
stressing that the development is encouraging indigenous companies to invest in
manufacturing of Set-Top-Boxes (STBs).
Pinnacle Communications was quite
visible in the process of Digital Switch Over (DSO) from analogue to digital
terrestrial TV broadcasting in Abuja on account of being a major player in the
setting up of the Abuja platform at the Pinnacle Broadcast Centre, Mpape but it
was not in charge of the set up boxes that experienced activation problems.
The NBC in its Facebook page requested viewers to call this
number to activate their decoder, 07003887277 or SMS your decoder unique ID to
09099966669. This info is for Abuja customers only. Inconvenience regretted.
Thanks and welcome to digital revolution in the FCT.
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