Simultaneoulsy, the “digital switch-on” will benefit these districts, a process to be completed nationwide by 2029, said Alberto Ishibashi, manager of Planning and Development at Conatel.

In 2010, the state channel Paraguay TV was the first to adopt the Brazilian-Japanese Isdbt system for digital television broadcast, which private stations gradually adopted.

According to the authorities, the technological switchover will guarantee the reception of high-definition images, as well as multiprogramming, allowing for more than one program on each channel.

The first analogue blackout test was conducted in July 2023 and lasted for six hours, limited to the metropolitan area of the Paraguayan capital and other regions of the Central department.

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