Mexico Accelerates Digital-TV Transition by 6 Years
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Mexico will accelerate its transition to digital-television broadcasts, boosting competition against Grupo Televisa SA and freeing up airwaves that can be used for high-speed wireless Internet access.
The transition will begin next year and will be complete in 2015, six years earlier than planned, President Felipe Calderon said today in Mexico City. In a presidential order published today, he told government officials to begin preparing Mexicans for the transition by assuring that digital tuners will be imported and sold at fair prices.