Mexico 'Completes' All-Digital TV Switchover, But 1.5 Million Have No Coverage Juan Fernandez Gonzalez - Rapid TV News
go to original January 5, 2016

As Mexico moves to all-digital TV, some worry old sets won’t be recycled properly (CCTVAmerica)

Although Mexico's Instituto Ferderal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT) claims to have concluded the country’s digital terrestrial television (DTT) transition, 1.5 million Mexicans still have no digital coverage.

Through its last scheduled switch-off, the Mexican broadcasting industry was to be the first in Latin America to complete digitalization. However, 497 stations will still be broadcasting analogue TV during 2016, leaving over 1% of the population with no DTT signal.

The IFT recognizes that the country's most remote and less populated areas are far from completing digitalization, and has said that the owners and managers of those 497 stations must carry out the necessary investment to be DTT-ready by 31 December 2016.

The same deadline has been set for TV stations, which were not required to digitalization production in 2015, although the country's main networks did so. In a statement published at the beginning of December, Mexico's Senate agreed to grant extra time for small and local operators to prepare for switchover.

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