The government promises to pay the change of television aerials after … – The País.com (Spain)

The TV antennas approximately one million buildings will have to undergo an adaptation to receive the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) before the end of this year and the government has rectified and today pledged to give aid to afford the change. The bill for this new adaptation, the Zapatero government had come to encrypt at 800 million euros, was now reduced to less than 300 million euros because, according to the Ministry of Industry, reantenización plan, as stated in the jargon of the trade, is less ambitious.

This adaptation of antennas, which affects 55% of the population, is part of a process of rearranging the order of the European Union-within-called digital dividend – by which leave some television frequencies occupy (800 megahertz band) to leave that space to 4G mobile operators. The deadline to change amplifiers antennas buildings sold on January 1, but that date does not imply a total blackout, since some channels will be lost, but the major networks will continue to be normal in the usual way .

The Government has today approved the National Technical Plan for DTT, for which he will spend 10 to eight multiple channels, has changed his mind regarding the payment of the change process, as even there was now argued that consumers shall bear the change, unlike what he promised at the time the socialist government. Today, however, said he will give aid worth 292 million euros, an amount that is, sources of Industry, which will cost the total process.

The expected price has shrunk from 800 to 300 million. The reason is that the 2011 plan envisaged building adapting 1.2 million with an average cost of 42 euros per household and the current plan reduces it to 22.6. The reason, according to the Government, is that it has proved necessary to adapt buildings and fewer frequencies better take advantage.

The million buildings that have to adapt has 12.9 million homes and they are home to 26 million people. There are 21 million, 45% of the population, who do not need changes, which include 9.2 million single-family homes and 179,000 collective residential buildings. Neighbourhood communities must check if they are part of the group that does have to make changes, request quotes and order the adapters at installation companies. It is not a change in the antennae of the buildings, but the amplifier equipment typically found in rooms other facilities.

Then the neighbors the Government may request that you return them what they paid . The estimated bills ranging from 150 in the buildings in which just change a multiple, and 550 euros, when it affects five digital manifold. Within households, viewers only have to retune your TV.

The Ministry also said today that prepares a new driver to Zamora for next week test for interference that may arise with the coexistence of 4G technology and DTT. In the past, in other tests, yes some problems

were detected, but the government maintains that if interference and required some measure arise, the cost will be the responsibility of telecom operators. Upon approval of the technical plan The Government has six months to invite tenders for the new channels and the aim is that they are oriented to high definition.