Poor and near-poor households will be supported with digital satellite TV receivers.

In the group of financial solutions, the revised regulations stipulate: The use of funds from the Public Telecommunication Service Fund to support digital television receivers is implemented according to the principle of supporting digital terrestrial television receivers for poor households and near-poor households eligible for support in areas within the digital terrestrial television coverage area; supporting digital satellite television receivers for poor households and near-poor households eligible for support in areas within the interactive terrestrial television coverage area before the time of stopping broadcasting analog terrestrial television but not within the digital terrestrial television coverage area.

The use of funds from the Public Telecommunication Service Fund to support the implementation of other tasks of the Project on digitalization of terrestrial television transmission and broadcasting by 2020 is implemented according to the Program on providing public telecommunication services by 2020 approved by the Prime Minister.

Before December 31, 2018, central and local television stations will stop broadcasting all television channels on analog terrestrial television transmission and broadcasting infrastructure in the remaining provinces of group III (Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri, Thua Thien - Hue, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh, Phu Yen, Lam Dong, Ninh Thuan, Binh Phuoc, Tay Ninh, Tra Vinh, Soc Trang, Bac Lieu, Ca Mau, Kien Giang) and areas not covered by the main digital/analog television broadcasting stations in the provinces of Quang Ninh, Bac Giang, Thai Nguyen, Phu Tho, Ninh Binh, Binh Thuan, Dong Nai, Ba Ria - Vung Tau, Khanh Hoa.