follow money one mexico spend 1.6 billion dollars flat screen millions cost 145.00 instead 40.00 decoder box sure dig deep enough find sort carlos slim corruption mexican billionaire make tons money obamaphone provide america nice huh check one see connection american corruption pass smell test mexico city cradle flat-screen television set arm tomasa lopez beam good fortune take part world big distribution free digital televisions.lopez domestic servant among thousands people throng cavernous tent populous working-class iztapalapa district one hundreds venues across mexico poor receive 10 million digital television set government give away charge.it program cost mexican treasury 1.6 billion push convert nation analog television signal digital format unite state make switch 2009. happy lopez say always want digital television see channel kid see cartoon nations argentina give away digital television set none scale mexico program prove controversial critics question government president enrique pena nieto give away 24-inch flat-screen televisions cost around 145 decoder box allow old analog televisions remain use u.s. solution cost 40.it recipients tvs benefit television manufacturers cluster along mexico northern border also profit two powerful media conglomerate move quickly digital service two company soon face competition third television network mandate existence 2013 constitutional reform bring great competition industry.at entrance delivery tent recipient television set jose luis rodriguez reproach government official suggest set free stop use word pay tax free sputter rodriguez work federal social security institute.already government give away 4.6 million televisions massive operation require fleet truck deliver set mass workers check document take fingerprint scan bar cod set ensure family get one.recipients low-income mexicans take part one several government social service program include prospera national crusade hunger liconsa subsidize milk program.a sense urgency pervade program constitutional reform enact 2013 give government deadline dec. 31 convert nation digital television recent weeks government team hand 30,000 40,000 set day double figure meet deadline.administrators program say many benefit among raise number people access internet cut electricity usage analog television consume 320 340 watts add decoder another nine watts say javier lizarraga galindo adviser behind program communications transport secretariat energy efficient digital tv like ones give mexico consume less 40 watts gabriel sosa plata professor autonomous metropolitan university frequent commentator television issue say think energy consumption might actually go although analog signal suppose end dec. 31 think many people buy decoder box move old set children room instead one television two mean electricity consumption sosa plata said.skeptics also question whether tvs really make internet accessible digital tvs offer state usb hdmi port hook internet would require additional hardware contract provider though government pledge eventually offer free wireless service.mexico already provide free wi-fi near public park square government build nation 2,400 municipalities telecom reform require expand many 250,000 sit 2018. still 50 percent mexico 120 million citizens regularly access internet.criticism program also center bid purchase television set mexico world large assembler tvs produce 35 40 million year seven different company plant mexico mostly along u.s. border take part supply program first stage transparent suspicious say jorge negrete pacheco executive director mediatelecom consultancy mexico city telecommunications regulation inevitable think like none winners bid know brand negrete say south korean manufacturer samsung disqualify offer good product require bid condition winner one bid sell televisions set brand diamante largely unknown.the two television network televisa tv azteca instal digital transmitters around country tv azteca broadcast 180 channel televisa operate 220 channel two company capture majority advertise spend country media.by next year however third network step fray grupo imagen media owner cadenatres begin broadcast win bid march occupy 123 channel spread across country find carlos slim connection mexican media company grupo imagen one two new national tv concessions may look move lucrative telecoms sector chief executive family-owned company say thursday.grupo imagen award free-to-air tv concession wednesday bid 1.81 billion pesos 116.8 million auction part government overhaul hidebound phone tv market control billionaire carlos slim america movil broadcaster televisa.grupo imagen media arm privately hold bank hotel construction hospital company grupo empresarial angeles gea run olegario vazquez aldir up-and-coming mexican mogul.in interview vazquez aldir acknowledge threat pose free-to-air tv new technologies include netflix say company might point follow footsteps televisa look move lucrative telecoms market rule future could strike alliances telecoms company say understand perfectly well challenge pose new technologies young generations consume content digital platforms vazquez aldir say speak slim telecom company slim america movil try offload assets comply new regulation result government telecom reform finalize last year.grupo imagen expect invest 10 billion pesos new network next 36 months vazquez aldir say aim broadcast mexico main cities january 2016 rest country cover within three years.the money would mainly spend buy rent land install broadcast infrastructure say add company hop sell content eventually unite state capitalize grow latino market therenegrete say advent third channel democratic message offer new source information different newscasts seem positive read ocregister follow money mexican giveaway millions flat screen tv poor raise question