The Spanish government will not award help or subsidies to upgrade the existing terrestrial antenna systems nor for the acquisition of decoders by end users, according to the director for the Office for DTT of the Secretariat of State for Telecommunications and the Information Society (SETSI), José Antonio Quintela.
However, he pointed out that the Spanish government will invest in the development of analogue switch-off projects as part of the National Transition Plan to DTT, approved last September. Quintela added that DTT is already the second most popular form of reception in Spain after analogue TV and ahead of cable TV.
For his part, the director of technology at Abertis Telecom, Sergio Tórtola, said that Spain will need to adapt over 4.500 transmission centres to digital.