Paraguay has "the chance to adapt to digital television" and shut down once and for all the dated analogue signal currently used in the South American country, the president of the National Telecommunications Commission, or Conatel, Teresita Palacios, told EFE. That doesn't mean that any channel that wants to go digital can't do it now - they definitely can," Palacios said. "We had drawn up a plan saying operators had until 2014 to reserve the digital channels, so that Conatel could plan for them," Palacios said. She said they are therefore aware that "a significant investment has been made in the channels to enable their adaptation to digital television, and so we invite the analogue channels to join in and get with the digital era." To promote that adaptation, Palacios said the seven channels that currently retransmit nationwide on the analogue frequency will not have to bid for the digital channels, and will therefore have no expenses in that regard.

Source: Fox News August 26, 2016 15:56 UTC