Costa Rica. Consistent with the analog blackout projected for 2017, Costa Ricans conducted the first public digital television broadcast, a 24-hour test from channel 13's state signal under the ISDB-T standard.
The beginning of the trial period was illustrated with a ceremony in which it was reported on the donation of equipment and a Digital TV transmitter by Japan, valued at US $ 154,600, the donation was made official with the arrival in Costa Rica of the Deputy Minister of interior and Telecommunications of Japan, Tetsuo Yamakawa.
These equipment will provide greater coverage and access to mobile device applications, data transmission, interactivity capacity, alert system, multiprogramming (several channels in a single frequency) and better use of the electrical spectrum.
On the other hand, the president of Costa Rica, Laura Chinchilla, referring to the DTT project, said that "Costa Rica already has five accesses to digital networks, and soon we will present to the country the National Broadband Plan, which will allow us to pull the most lagging regions with the same connectivity standards that any user with resources can have."
