Colombia. The three additional Digital Terrestrial Television stations that the Caribbean Region will have are part of the implementation of phase III DTT, recently approved by the National Television Board of the National Television Authority, ANTV, with an investment of $34 billion. The total deployment of this phase has planned to adapt a total of 14 stations throughout the country.
Telecaribe will be one of the regional channels most benefited from Digital Television for All DTT, by broadcasting its signals in Hd High Definition and increasing the current coverage of the old analog technology that today only reaches 164 of its municipalities.
Since 2014, Digital Television for All DTT is available in more than 100 municipalities in the Caribbean region, with an approximate coverage of 7.5 million inhabitants (73% of the total population). With Phase III, to be executed from 2016, Digital Television for All DTT will increase its coverage in this area of the country to 174 municipalities and, approximately, 9.9 million inhabitants (Almost 94% of its total population). From these stations, the High Definition HD signals of the public channels Señal Colombia, Institucional and Canal UNO and the regional channel TELECARIBE will be transmitted.
The announcement was made by Ernesto P. Orozco O., Member of the National Television Board and graduate of the engineering program of the Universidad del Norte de Barranquilla, during the Workshop "Regulatory Challenge of Digitalization and Convergence", held in this city on November 27.
