Mexico. Cofetel currently structures the Official Mexican Standard, through which the entity seeks to promote digital television in the country and which includes a point that will put an end to the sale of analog televisions in the Mexican market.
This rule is estimated to be ready in five or maximum seven months. For its development, they are working hand in hand with the Ministry of Economy, because they recognize the need to promote digital TV from all areas that allows to meet the deadline for the analog blackout.
Some Mexican critics have claimed that this ban should have gone out a long time ago and thus would have avoided the delivery of decoders in Tijuana, the first place in Mexico to have 100% coverage with digital television and where 192,000 decoders were delivered to people with low economic resources.
Fernando Borjón, the director of Cofetel's radio and television unit, came to the fore to these criticisms. The official said that it is not late, since Tijuana only represents 1.6% of the population affected by digital television and that only 20% of the population that has a television, is equipped to receive digital television.
He added that the time to promulgate the norm is due to the fact that it must have a normal process, through which technical meetings, public consultations and meetings with industrialists must be held. In addition, he indicated that with this type of rules what is sought is that Mexicans have access to digital television without trauma.
