National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) of Philippines has noted that if the process of shifting from analogue to digital television only starts in 2014, then the country is unlikely to meet its deadline for complete digitisation by 2015.
NTC chief Gamaliel Cordoba said, “If we are going to start by 2014, that should be too short. Right now, we are already putting together the IRR. We are doing that all with the stakeholders, including other government agencies. We need to thresh out all the issues before we issue the IRR. We would give them enough time for the transition.”
The country will be joining other Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Member States in going digital. What also may not come as a surprise is the fact the country will be adopting the system developed by Japan. It will be using Integrated Service Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (ISDB-T) system. This system will help the country reach out to its citizens when there are natural disasters and that’s one of the reasons it was chosen in the first place.
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