In the framework of the Fourth Government Report, the President of Mexico, Felipe Calderón, announced the signing of a decree that accelerates the transition to the digital terrestrial television system, in a four-year period that begins in 2011 and ends in 2015.
This decision is part of President Calderón's telecommunications reform project and advances by six years the deadline that had been established for the 'digital blackout', scheduled for 2021.
According to Calderón, "this will allow to achieve the full convergence of telephony, Internet and digital television services. This transition will make it possible for a greater number of television signal providers and, above all, telecommunications services to participate."
The President also indicated that with this technology Mexico will be able, as other countries have already done, to release the 700 MHz band of the radio spectrum and thereby offer more and better services since it is a band suitable for mobile telephony and fourth-generation Internet.
Likewise, the Mexican government announced that it will establish a support scheme so that all users have adequate digital receivers in the shortest possible time.
