Mexico is the first Latin American country to fully achieve the transition from analog to digital, which takes effect from 00:00 hrs. 1 January 2016. To achieve this goal, the federal government has delivered more than 13 million digital TVs, distributed throughout the Mexican territory to beneficiaries of social programs implemented by the Ministry of Social Development (SEDESOL), and through the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (SCT).
The Blackout Analog is the suspension of analog broadcasts television operators, to make way for a type of transmission using the same binary system used in programming computer, thus causing the digital television.
One of the objectives of this initiative is that small public television companies, especially those that generate contents of a cultural nature, can present all kinds of programming without of charging a penny, because they can survive thanks to funds provided by the government.
In addition, the signal Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) users can enjoy better audio and picture quality of programs and also be able to tune into a large number of free channels.
For this change can take place, the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) has allocated 26 million pesos employees in purchasing 13.8 million digital televisions, logistics costs, as well as the installation of modules registration and delivery of monitors to low-income beneficiaries.
The federal government set December 20 as deadline to finish delivering TVs. This, after 2015 the Chamber of Deputies extended the deadlines on three occasions, arguing that there would be time for all enterprises will transition from analog to digital.
The program of transition to DTT began to take shape in 2004 during the administration of then-President Vicente Fox Quezada, who decreed that the analog blackout would take shape in Mexico in 2021; however, in 2010, his successor Felipe Calderon canceled this statement to declare that the shift to digital TV come 2015.
The constitutional reform in telecommunications came into force in 2013 replaced the Federal Commission Telecommunications, leading to IFT, the agency stipulated 31 December 2015 as the final date for the blackout.
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