More than 1.7 trillion VND (81 million USD), will be spent from the Vietnam Public utility Telecommunication Service Fund to help poor households replace analogue televisions with digital ones.
This is part of the country's plan for television digitalisation in which analogue TVs would be eased out in the five biggest cities by 2015, said Deputy Minister of Information and Telecommunication and head of the plan steering committee Le Nam Thang.
Thang said that under the plan, they were conducting a survey on television usage by households and making a list of beneficiaries who would get support.
The beneficiaries include poor and near-poor households and families which get preferential treatment for their contribution to the country's revolution, he said. The disbursement would be in line with the steps being taken to spread digital TV technology, he added.
The ministry also recommended that people should buy Vietnamese set-top boxes with digital TVs to save money and to receive television signals conveniently.
From May onwards, all TV sets sold in Vietnam have to compatible with receiving digital signals.
In the first phase, the national plan on television digitalisation will be implemented in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hai Phong, Da Nang and Can Tho. The switch to digital TV will be made before December 31, 2015.
In the second phase, with the deadline of December 31, 2016, the plan will be carried out in 26 provinces.
The third phase will be implemented in 18 provinces by December 31, 2018. And in the fourth one, digitalisation will be implemented in the remote provinces in the north and the central region.
Digital communication systems offer much more efficiency, better performance and much greater flexibility than analogue technology.-VNA
This is part of the country's plan for television digitalisation in which analogue TVs would be eased out in the five biggest cities by 2015, said Deputy Minister of Information and Telecommunication and head of the plan steering committee Le Nam Thang.
Thang said that under the plan, they were conducting a survey on television usage by households and making a list of beneficiaries who would get support.
The beneficiaries include poor and near-poor households and families which get preferential treatment for their contribution to the country's revolution, he said. The disbursement would be in line with the steps being taken to spread digital TV technology, he added.
The ministry also recommended that people should buy Vietnamese set-top boxes with digital TVs to save money and to receive television signals conveniently.
From May onwards, all TV sets sold in Vietnam have to compatible with receiving digital signals.
In the first phase, the national plan on television digitalisation will be implemented in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hai Phong, Da Nang and Can Tho. The switch to digital TV will be made before December 31, 2015.
In the second phase, with the deadline of December 31, 2016, the plan will be carried out in 26 provinces.
The third phase will be implemented in 18 provinces by December 31, 2018. And in the fourth one, digitalisation will be implemented in the remote provinces in the north and the central region.
Digital communication systems offer much more efficiency, better performance and much greater flexibility than analogue technology.-VNA
