Peru and Japan signed a cooperation agreement in the process of implementing digital television in the country, during a meeting in Tokyo between the Minister of Transport and Communications, Enrique Cornejo, and his Japanese counterpart, Tsutomu Sato.
The Minister of Transport and Communications is visiting that country this week in consideration of the importance of introducing the Japanese-Brazilian Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) Standard in Peru.
“A few hours ago we signed a cooperation agreement with the Japanese Minister of Communication, Tsutomu Sato,” Minister Cornejo told RPP.
He explained that this cooperation agreement has three important components, such as the support of the Japanese government and its public and private companies in everything that the implementation system entails, including holding seminars, as well as sending Peruvian experts to Japan to work on the technological advances that continue to be developed in that country.
It should be noted that on April 24, 2009, the MTC resolved to adopt the ISDB-T standard (Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting Terrestrial – Japan), as the digital terrestrial television system for Peru.
“"It should be noted that Japan is implementing the system but at the same time continues to research, and the good thing is that those of us who are going to enter the system in these times will have access to new technologies," he said.
The second point reached in the agreement is the holding of the First DTT Forum for Latin America in Lima from September 21 to 23, sponsored by both the Japanese and Brazilian governments.
“Experts from across Latin America will attend this important forum, and it will be an opportunity to explain what the system means and the advantages it offers,” he stressed.
Japanese digital television standards will allow Peruvian operators to begin broadcasting in digital signal and include television and other multimedia services on mobile phones, something that is already underway in Japan.
The goal is to fully digitize television broadcasts in Peru and expand mobile phone services by 2015 in the country's eight main cities.