MADRID, Spain.- Starting next May 15, the transition to Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) will begin in Havana.
“In this first moment, the national channels Educativo and Educativo 2 stop transmitting the analog signal in the Havana territory,” the officials specified. official media. Therefore, Cubavisión, Tele Rebelde, Multivisión and Canal Habana will continue with their usual technology.
According to the Cuban authorities, this technological change aims to “give continuity to the DTT implementation project in the nation, a more efficient technology that gradually replaces obsolete ones, with significant savings in electricity, in addition to increasing service coverage television and free up the 700 MHz frequency band to expand the 4G mobile phone service”.
The details on the change of these channels to Digital Terrestrial Television will be given during the first fortnight of May, indicated Cubadebate.
Just as he points out that you can call the phones 76419100 and 78603104 to obtain more information.
Although since 2018 the Cuban government has been announcing the replacement of analog television on the island, it was not until the end of last year that the partial transition to digital television began in the province of Pinar del Río; in the aforementioned channels: Educational and Educational 2.
Ana Julia Marín López, Vice Minister of Communications, in statements to the newspaper Granma He said that during 2023 and 2024 the transition to the center and east of the country would be taking place, respectively, increasing the commercialization of digital television signal receivers in those territories.
According to official information, the process of transition It was fully developed in Pinar del Río and Artemisa. Havana will be followed by Mayabeque and Matanzas.
For Digital Terrestrial Television, the so-called DTT decoder boxes are needed, to which many Cubans do not have access due to their high prices. In the same way, the televisions of this system do not have prices according to the possibility of obtaining them for a large part of the population.
In Latin America, Mexico was the first country to complete the analog blackout, in 2015. While in January of this year Costa Rica became the second in the region to complete the process. Others, such as Peru and El Salvador, intend to complete the transition in 2024.
