Mexico Pushes Down Path Towards Digital Television Juan Fernandez Gonzalez - Rapid TV News
go to original November 7, 2015

Tomasa López and her 11-year-old daughter Susana show off the new digital television set they picked up in August. Mexico's government hopes to give away 10 million 24-inch sets by the end of the year. (Tim Johnson)

The Mexican Government is planning to switch off analogue TV as scheduled, despite the fact that up to 17 million people may not be able to receive Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT).

The Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT) claims to have delivered 6.5 million DTT-ready TVs and set-top boxes (STB) to low-income families and maintains that it will hand out over three million more before the 31 December deadline. The SCT says that this will lead to over 90% coverage meaning that the analogue switch-off can take place without breaking the law.

...Mexico's analogue switch-off has been delayed many times, and the population complains that the necessary technology hasn't yet been distributed. But this time, the IFT and the government say that DTT will definitely be switched on in less than two months.

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Related: Mexico to Continue Analogue Switchoff on 11 December (telecompaper)

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