Morelia, Michoacan, November 26, 2015 .- The State Governor, Silvano Aureoles Conejo, said Michoacan comply in a timely manner with the transition from analog television signals to digital and he said that the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (SCT) has covered 97.4 percent of the target population with the delivery of digital TVs.
At a press conference, accompanied by federal officials of the various bodies involved in the matter, the head of the state executive, said the law establishes deadlines for the transition, in the case of Michoacan ends on December 15 and from the first minute of December 16 transmitting stations in the state, except for those located in the city of Lazaro Cardenas, must comply with this signal change.
This said, does the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) pursuant to the work undertaken by the SCT to deliver digital television to poor people, as required by the law itself, based on the pattern that has the Secretariat of Social Development (SEDESOL); in that regard he explained that we have a coverage of just over 97 percent and the remaining 3 percent is ready to be covered in the coming days, with the aim that when the “analogue blackout” applies, the public may have access to the television signal.
Aureoles Conejo stressed the importance of informing the public with opportunity, that poor people are served with the delivery of TV, and the rest of the population, may acquire or digital TVs, encoders.
Similarly, said that in the case of Michoacan Broadcasting System (SMRTV), the administration responsible for working overtime in the shortest possible time have solved part of the equipment and technology necessary to enter this transition, once you have, it noted that report to the IFT. “We want to do it as quickly as possible so that the Michoacano system still transmitted normally and also comply fully with the law,” he said.
In his turn, President Commissioner of IFT, Gabriel Oswaldo Contreras Saldivar, highlighted the relevance of Michoacan know what is happening with the issue of “digital switchover”, he said the most important thing is to bear in mind that digital technologies can be more content with better visual and sound quality, allow see HD channels and use the spectrum for other purposes such as mobile broadband have increased connectivity.
He recalled that many countries already have fully transited to digital signals and is the turn of Mexico by express mandate of the Constitution, he reiterated that the Act provides Deliverables receiving devices 90 percent of the poor population, and in Michoacan and that percentage is exceeded.
The official noted that From December 16 the only digital television signals will be received, so he said that citizens must have a digital television, or must have a decoder and an antenna to keep the signal. He noted that the Institute has www.tdt.mx portal and phone 01-800-880-2424 for more information on this process.
For his part, the Secretary of Communications of the SCT, Monica Aspe Bernal, said the transition is good news for Mexico, so people have more and better services, said regarding the delivery of television for the program of transition to digital terrestrial television, have been delivered to all the country’s 7.7 million digital televisions thousand 600 municipalities in 32 states.
In the case of Michoacan, he explained that more than 485,000 televisions were delivered, representing 97.4 percent of the target defined by SEDESOL, and 3 percent have a second chance to receive, for this table care and SCT inform the site location will be installed.
Finally, the General Director of Development Environment Urban and Tourism of the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat), Carlos Sanchez Gasca said that in coordination with the SCT have joined efforts to develop the National Program for Disposal of TVs in both states have signed agreements to turn in coordination with municipalities program Collection Centers Collection TVs is implemented, in order that they be deposited in safe places and no environmental contamination.
this regard, said a company will be responsible for collecting TVs that people no longer occupy and move to authorized facilities for the assembly process, subsequent recycling and landfill waste. To that end Semarnat enabled www.depositatutele.gob.mx page where people can access more information from the environmental point of view of the importance of the program to the analog transition and locate in the case of Michoacan places and times . of the collection centers that are enabling for that purpose
During the press conference, also attended by the head of the Unit of Media and Audiovisual Content of IFT Lizarraga Maria Iriarte; General Coordinator of Institutional Linking IFT, Eduardo Alvarez Ponce; as well as the delegate of Semarnat in Michoacan, Mauro Ballesteros Ramón Figueroa and SMRTV director, Gabriela Aguilar Molina.