Cyprus gives viewers three more months on old TV platform after transition issues

The Department of Electronic Communications is reactivating the previous digital terrestrial television platform, Velister, from today, running it in parallel with the new platform for a further three-month period, the department announced.

The move follows a wave of problems reported by households since the full switch to the new DVB-T2 standard, which replaced the older DVB-T system used by Velister. Many consumers completed the required settings changes or installed decoders but still could...