Mexico. A call for a consensus to be reached among the different authorities that allows providing subsidies to the population of scarce economic resources within the framework of the implementation of digital television in Mexico and thus successfully achieve the analog blackout in 2015, made the president of the Cofetel, Mony de Swaan (photo).
As he explained, it must subsidize the purchase of decoders for the reception of digital television to the sector of the population of low economic resources and that is why he proposes that Congress approve a law that allows them to be delivered.
In Mexico, a controversy has been generated after the proposal of subsidies for decoders, because this is a year of presidential elections and different voices have said that these could lend themselves to campaign and favor a candidate.
But this is not a new policy. One of the most representative cases of help to the population within the process of implementing digital television is Argentina, a country in which its government has given away more than one million set-top boxes to the most vulnerable sectors.
For its part, Colombia is another of the countries in the region in which there has been talk of subsidizing decoders, but so far they have not defined anything concrete neither the National Television Authority nor the government.
Mony de Swaan concluded that there is no country in the world that has successfully completed its transition without subsidies to at least one sector of the population.
