Digital television will enter every home by 2015

The Ministry of Information and Communication Technology will take into account all the details concerning the switch from analogical television to digital one by June 16, 2015, as stipulated in the Geneva-06 agreement. Some of the deprived groups of people will be provided with the necessary equipment free of charge. The subject was discussed at the meeting of the Ministry's commission for working out the strategy for implementing digital terrestrial television in Moldova, Info-Prim Neo reports, quoting a communique from the Ministry. The meeting considered setting a time limit when the analogical transmissions will be stopped and the first multiplex with national coverage will be launched and the possibility of allocating regional TV channels to the region Comrat. An interdepartmental working group will be set up to monitor the switch from analogical television to digital television. IS Radiocomunicatii director general Valeriu Elas said the switch to digital television should take place as soon as possible as the simultaneous broadcasting in analogical and digital regimes involves additional costs. The commission decided that I.S. Radiocomunicatii will assess the costs incurred when broadcasting simultaneously in analogical and digital regimes so as to set an optimal term when the analogical transmissions will be stopped. There will be examined the possibility of establishing public-private partnerships for building the first national multiplexes and providing the underprivileged families with equipment needed to change the digital signal into analogical one.