Vietnam completes Scheme for Digitisation of Terrestrial Television
Vietnam has completed the Scheme for Digitisation of Terrestrial Television to 2020, heard a press conference held by the Ministry of Information and Communications in Hanoi on January 11.
Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung speaks at the event (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) –♋ Vietnam hascompleted the Scheme for Digitisation of Terrestrial Television to 2020, hearda press conference held by the Ministry of Information and Communications inHanoi on January 11.
Accordingly, the country formally stoppedproviding analog television service nationwide from late December 2020.
The scheme has fulfilled all four major set targets, including the completion of infrastructure transition (Photo: VNA)
In his remarks, Minister Nguyen Manh Hung saidthat the scheme has fulfilled all four major set targets, including thecompletion of infrastructure transition. Television coverage is now able to reacheven the farthest regions of Vietnam, enabling all people in 63 provinces andcities to access this utility. In addition, all local televisionbroadcasters are reorganised in order to focus more on quality of content. Statistics showed that in 2020, 16 millionfamilies could enjoy cable TV and Internet Protocol TV (IPTV), while 3.2million others use free satellite TV. Around 1.9 million poor households were providedwith a suitable set top box from 2015 to 2020. As a result, including 20 percent ofsatellite TV coverage, all of the Vietnamese population are able to accessdigital television in 2020. The formal cessation of analog televisionin Vietnam has turned it into the fifth nation among 10 ASEAN members and the78th out of 193 countries worldwide to complete the TV digitalisation process./.
Analog television signals will be switched off in 15 provinces from August 15 as part of the terrestrial television digitalisation roadmap of the Ministry of Information and Communication.
Twelve provinces in the central regional had their analogue terrestrial television channels switched off from June 30, 2019, according to the Authority of Radio Frequency Management under the Ministry of Information and Communications.
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Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung speaks at the event (Photo: VNA) 
The scheme has fulfilled all four major set targets, including the completion of infrastructure transition (Photo: VNA) 
