Results from Public Appeal for Organizations to conduct Terrestrial Digital Televising Broadcasting Recipient Support

1.Project Outline

(1) Digital reception consultation/countermeasures project This project aims to conduct reception consultations, local investigations, reception countermeasures and channel switching and eliminate digital receiving interference after the termination of analogue broadcasting in order to implement permanent countermeasures for households for which temporal satellite countermeasures have been in force in view of the complete switch over to terrestrial digital broadcasting.
 
(2) Call center project for terrestrial digital broadcasting This project aims to support digitalization of households through implementation of various telephone consultations, etc. when households for which temporal satellite countermeasures have been in force implement permanent countermeasures in view of the complete switch over to terrestrial digital broadcasting.
 
(3) Project for subsidization of reception equipment purchases, etc. This project aims to provide necessary support for reception of terrestrial digital broadcasting to those who are difficult to cover the expenses when the work for permanent countermeasures is implemented due to economic hardships or any other reasons among households subject to temporal satellite countermeasures in view of the complete shift to terrestrial digital broadcasting.
 
(4) Project for temporary countermeasures against poor reception (reception countermeasures project) Temporal countermeasures against poor reception are to be taken by satellite broadcasting, etc. for those who are not able to receive terrestrial digital broadcasting due to technical constraints or any other reasons. This project aims to smoothly implement temporal countermeasures against poor reception by providing support to any person who offers equipment which enables (with regard to receiving equipment, limited to the case where it is rented) households that are actually receiving terrestrial analogue broadcasting and do not have broadcasting receiving equipment offered by the Association for Promotion of Digital Broadcasting to receive said broadcasting at the time of the termination of terrestrial analogue broadcasting.
 

2.Receivers support organizations

  From February 1 (Wed) to February 21 (Tue), 2012, MIC held a public appeal for proposals on organizations to conduct each projectand one opinion was submitted for each project. The Review Council consisting of external experts evaluated the content of proposals and MIC adopted the following organizations to conduct each project based on its evaluations.
 

Project name	Organizations
Digital reception consultation/countermeasures project	The Association for Promotion of Digital Broadcasting
Call center project for terrestrial digital broadcasting	NHK Business Services Inc.
Project for subsidization of reception equipment purchases, etc.	NTT-ME Corporation
Project for temporary countermeasures against poor reception (reception countermeasures project)	The Association for Promotion of Digital Broadcasting