Having a common platform for radio and television is critically important for a small island developing state.
Minister for Communications, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum made these comments at the launch of the first HD channel on Walesi for the FBC Sports channel and the public and commercial broadcaster’s radio stations going on the Walesi platform.
He says today Walesi has 100 percent coverage and the technology that they are using is currently not utilised to it’s maximum capacity, as it has the ability for people to send back messages.
Sayed-Khaiyum also says with the roll out of the Walesi infrastructure, a TV station like Mai TV that is on a payment plan to pay for the TV licence fees, has got nation-wide coverage, and if it weren’t for Walesi they would not have that kind of coverage.
He says that the switchover to digital TV in…
