The Government will face in autumn migration process multichannel DTT to another frequency range to clear part of the digital-dividend spectrum-the telephone companies to offer 4G services.
Industry Minister Jose Manuel Soria said that the change must be completed by January 1, 2015 and amounted to about 250 million cost will reantenización needed to watch TV in a different frequency current and will affect five million households.
The change is that those Freeview channels that are broadcast in the 800 megahertz band must migrate to the unreleased part of the spectrum to be deployed telephony fourth generation, 4G. The minister told Soria “Efe” agency “will be 8 channel three-two public and one Autonomous- TVE five private television.” “The normal thing is that competition go on five channels, four HD and one standard definition,” he added.
The digital dividend plan was planned and done by the previous Government, in late 2011, fifteen million affected households and the amount was 800 million euros. With this plan there are about five million homes less affected and the amount will be around 250 million, said the Minister of Industry.
The Minister did not say whether the reantenización be paid with the proceeds of the contest. “It is a decision that is not taken by the government,” said
When asked whether to allow time to conduct liberalizing the airwaves for operators to offer 4G services and the reantenización for January, as required by the European Union, Soria said “all this is accompanied by a comprehensive communication plan to develop between September and December, so that the TV channels that are affected by the digital dividend, not are all going to be simulcast for citizens to continue viewing. ” “The period from September to December is just for those who do reantenizar affected,” added the Minister.
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