DTTB due by 2017

KUALA LUMPUR: The Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcast (DTTB) is expected to be completed and implemented by 2017.
Multimedia and Communications Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Shabery Cheek said the project, which switches analog broadcasting to digital, is at the stage of building and preparation of infrastructure.
Speaking at the Dewan Rakyat today, he said the tender to build the infrastructure has been issued, and work has been carried out in East Malaysia before proceeding to the north of the peninsula and Klang Valley.
"Once the infrastructure is completed up north and in East Malaysia, the ministry will carry out a transition exercise where both analog and digital broadcasting will be done at the same time," he said in response to an oral question by Jeff Ooi Chuan Aun (DAP-Jelutong).
Ooi, in a supplementary question, asked Ahmad Shabery why the ministry was late in implementing the digital broadcast, which was supposed to begin in 2012, adding that the ministry was behind schedule in the implementation.
Ahmad Shabery agreed with Ooi, but added that the ministry had faced similar problems like other neighbouring countries like Thailand and Indonesia in implementing the system.
"These countries took time to start their digital and close their analog broadcasting," he said.