Belarus getting ready to convert 'digital dividend'

A recent session of the State Committee for Radiofrequencies set up a workgroup to plan actions to make the said conversion. A schedule to make the conversion will be worked out by the workgroup by the end of the year.

By 1 July 2015 all countries are supposed to switch to digital air broadcasting. After that the frequencies they use for analogue terrestrial television will not be coordinated and protected on the global scale. Belarus is also intent on pulling the plug on analog terrestrial broadcasting before this time. Before the spectrum to be freed up can be used by promising technologies, the spectrum has to be converted.

The 790-862MHz spectrum looks most attractive for operators from the point of view of reducing capital outlays on deploying a fourth-generation cellular communication network. All mobile companies show an interest in the spectrum. The lower the frequency is, the larger territory can be covered by a single base station and the less investment is required; Kazinform cites BelTA.