Costa Rica. During the second week of July, the government of Costa Rica will make available to television channels universities, guilds and other organizations with an interest in digital TV, the draft of the Transition Regulations to Digital Television.
Rowland Espinosa, Deputy Minister of Telecommunications, indicated that after the project is published, these entities will have a maximum period of ten days to make the comments they consider necessary to improve the regulation.
Different sectors have criticized this process, as they say that little progress has been made to meet the goal of the analog blackout for 2017 after three years of having selected the Japanese Brazilian digital television model.
In addition, critics of the process point out that there is a six-month delay in the turning on of digital television by the channels, which should have started in January, but they expect it to begin at the end of July.
This delay was due to the consultations that the Superintendency of Telecommunications raised before the Attorney General's Office on what would be the legal figure to make the permits to the representatives of the different channels to carry out the digital ignition, determining the permit for experimental use.
