On Monday, the VTC Digital Company in Ha Noi donated 50 DVB-T2 set-top boxes (STBs), which decode digital TV signals, to poor families in Hoa Nhon Commune, Hoa Vang District, Da Nang.

The STBs, which are labelled VTC-T201, are digital compatible devices meeting the national standards and regulations of the Ministry of Information and Communications.  A DVB-T2 device is now priced at 580,000VND.

A DVB-T2 device

The company will also fund the installation of the donated devices, but the recipients must pay the monthly subscription fees.

Currently, the city authorities are giving free-of-charge STBs to local households living below or near the city’s poverty threshold, and to poor social policy and ethnic minority families in the locality.