Mexico. To achieve the goal of turning off analog television in 2016, the Mexican government announced the implementation of a subsidy plan that will cover 23.1 million households.
The Secretary of Communications and Transportation, Dionisio Pérez Jácome, explained that support of 500 Mexican pesos for a decoder and 250 Mexican pesos for an antenna can be considered, based on international experiences.
In total , 17,325 million Mexican pesos would have to be disbursed by the government of Mexico to subsidize families that currently do not have digital television service in that country.
The subsidies from the Mexican government will be aimed at the population with fewer resources, so they will begin to be delivered within the framework of a pilot plan in Tijuana and Tecate.
The government of that country assures that only in Tijuana there are 250 thousand households that require the subsidy because today they do not have digital television.
In July 2004 the government of Mexico decided to adopt the American digital television model ATSC, and a six-term plan was drawn up to conclude with the blackout of digital television in 2021.
But the current president of Mexico, Felipe Calderón, proposed to advance the blackout by five years, a goal that requires subsidies to be able to fulfill it, an issue that has generated a strong controversy that still continues in this country.
