Guía metodológica para la implementación de televisión digital en Bolivia

Abstract

The migration to Digital Terrestrial Television or Open Digital Television, with the ISDB-Tb standard, is a transition that involves several changes and heavy investments in the transmission and development of content by television companies and also means a change for users, since they must also adapt their televisions to have access to the new signal with more audio and video quality. It is necesary to study the regulations, to point out the essential requirements for the different phases of implementation, in joint work with companies and specialized professionals, with international recognized good practices in project management. In Bolivia, Telecommunications Law 164 was amended on August 31, 2017 to provide a conglomerate of resolutions and decrees that promote the digital migration of the different analogue television channels and subsequently a series of provisions were established for operating licensing for 15 more years for each current operator, for free. The channels companies have a new digital blackout period for the 3 main cities until November 2021 and others with less coverage until November 2025. The guide resulting from this work has already been applied and its contribution to all other channels is expected.