MATV Maintenance Budget: How Much Should a Juristic Person Set Aside, and What to Inspect

A sensible maintenance budget depends on system size, equipment age and required service level, not a round number. Unmaintained systems degrade gradually until several floors lose TV at once, and that emergency repair often costs more than a year of MA.

Budget components

Component	Covers	Depends on
Preventive checks	Measurements, cleaning, connector tightening	Visits per year, building size
Corrective call-outs	Fault response, excluding parts	Required response time
Spare-parts reserve	Amplifiers, splitters, outlets, LNBs	Equipment age, single points of failure
Planned upgrades	Replacing end-of-life equipment, frequency changes	3–5 year building plan

Inspection checklist

Monthly (building staff): amplifier status lights, sample TVs on top, middle and lower floors, complaint log by riser.
Quarterly or half-yearly (contractor): level and MER at headend and last outlet of each riser, connectors, antennas and dishes, headend power.
Annually: sample outlets on every floor against baseline, grounding and lightning protection, channel plan review, replacement plan.