Up to 1.4 million homes in Poland could be left without the ability to watch TV following the country’s transition to digital broadcasting.
According to Gazeta Prawna, neither the Ministry of Finance, nor indeed cable and satellite operators, are willing to contribute towards the estimated PLN350 million (€77.3 million) that would be needed to subsidise set-top boxes for the most needy sections of the population.
Poland will start switching off analogue transmitters in 2011 and complete the transition to digital broadcasting two years later.
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