Further information about the switchover - including independent advice on how to update your equipment - can be obtained from the Digital UK website.
DSG intends to ramp up its information campaign about digital switchover to include leaflets and display material, while staff will provide guidance on the available options.
"So removing type 2 from the vaccine takes away that risk - and ensures we have a vaccine which will work better dose by dose". The planning involved in the switchover has included dealing with a global stockpile of 100 million doses of vaccine targeting just type 2, built up as an insurance policy in case of any outbreak.
At the BBC she has been responsible for a string of heavyweight projects including digital switchover and within her wide remit is the development of the corporation's digital strategy.
Including part of the cost of switchover in the BBC's budget means that the government is funding its industrial policy by means of a regressive tax on licence-fee payers rather than raising income tax.The Treasury may well refuse the BBC's proposal, even though the Department for Culture, Media and Sport is thought to support it in principle.
In a further sign that digital switchover is gathering pace, the owner of retail chains including Currys and PC World is to stop selling analogue television sets.
But the real reason for the switchover to smartphones was that last year large chip makers, including the Taiwan-based MediaTek and Spreadtrum, started offering "turn-key" systems: phone designs plus a set of chips with Android and other software preloaded.
The radio industry is still wrestling with the issue of digital radio switchover, with just under a third of listening via digital platforms, including DAB radio.
Not long ago, some analysts - including one of us (Canuto, 2010) - were anticipating a switchover in the growth engines of the global economy, with autonomous sources of growth in emerging and developing economies compensating for the drag of struggling advanced economies.
But a group of 13 commercial radio groups, including TalkSport parent UTV Media, last month urged the government to abandon switchover, claiming it would jeopardise local stations that were left behind on analogue and cost households "several hundred pounds" each to convert to digital.
People are still buying equipment that cannot receive this, including my parents who got the "assisted upgrade" as part of digital switchover, so they cannot receive the HD channels on their HD-ready TV via terrestrial.
