More wide band, less TDT

The TDT has been one of the big promises of the government. We move forward two years the analogical blackout and April 3 will finish the analogical television in Spain. The government not of to presume, but sometimes being the first ones is not to be the best.
And in Spain it has not been done. Since we have repeated many so many times, we have paid an enormous increase in price for the development of the TDT.
It is the bet for an ephemeral technology, without enough possibilities of development, interactivity or services. It is necessary to change the sign, but it might have chosen the platform with more future. The TDT has harmed the development of the wide band and the digital advanced services, where the future of the information society is, as it repeats the European Commission with the promise to allow more public financing.
The proper Commission of the Market of the Telecommunications was shouting high place and skylight one year ago: the television is not the key of the information society, the future is the wide band and the lines of new generation.
This is the strategy that now Federal Communications Commission (FCC) impels in the United States. To stretch new networks of wide band to cover the whole country in ten years.
Who is opposed to the new networks and services?
The same ones that have determined the strategy in Spain: the televisions and the politicians tied to them until Farmer turns the latter years of audio-visual regulation in Spain into a seasoning worthy of the Brothers or of Luis García Berlanga.
Someone will have to explain some day the enormous increase in price of the TDT in Spain, so much across the public financing: 425 millions invested in the digital transition till now; 249,3 millions only between 2006 and 2008 in the Plan It Advances and another 89 millions in 2009. And to all this it is necessary to add the investment of the viewers to change his antennas, TV sets and decoders. The majority of them without interactive capacity.
True that between 2006 and 2009 613,5 millions of public money have been invested in wide band, but major absence does effort public and deprived to reach the promise of the minister of gentle Industry of a universal service of one of access to Internet for all in 2011. A speed by that time obsolete and much underneath of the average offered by the commercial operators, although in Spain the new services are slower and more expensive than in the rest of Europe.
But when the future of the means, the information services and communication, and the new networks of wide band are the proper television, the televisions and the politicians resist.
Chains and politicians support the control of the business of the television and of the mass communication with expiry date.
The digital television has liberated frequencies for an enormous fragmentation of the market and with the television by Internet there is finished the last political, economic and geographical control of the mass communication media of masses excellently of the XXth century. Ideologists of one and another tendency coincide with different arguments with the support of the control of the television.
And the struggle for supporting this control makes be in danger the neutrality of the network, the beginning that allows to offer with freedom all kinds of services and contents in Internet, it to try to change for the Internet one toll, controlled and regulated by the phone companhies and the big means.
The TDT also has increased the benefits of other big companies as Abertis taken charge of the sign, which in full crisis of 2009 increased his income for telecommunications 25 % up to 541 million euros, and his operative results (ebit), 37,3 %. Calculate who wins and at what price the new television is paid.
The digital dividend - the frequencies liberated by the digitization - was already distributed badly and late in Spain. Linked to the financing of the public television and without enough guarantees on the new telecommunications services. The same that the new licenses of digital television distributed badly up to a national, autonomic and local atomization that has sunk the viability of many chains and has guaranteed neither the television of proximity nor other advantages of the system. And it has spurred on the concentration allowed by the government again to satisfy the interests of the big chains.
None of the parliamentary parties has stopped these years to design the information society for the future. That's why we do not advance the sufficient thing in digital or sustainable economy - the new promise - and remain suspended in the classification of the OCDE in the position 20 of the countries with wide band. Very far of the leaders of the future.