The number of licenses for using radio channels/frequencies for electronic communications networks and services issued in 2015 had almost doubled. The National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology last year issued 48 such new licenses and renewed eight licenses owned by providers for extending the areas covered by their services, IPN reports.
According to the Agency, the increase in the number of issued licenses was mainly due to the renewal of 27 licenses for providing analog terrestrial television services that expired on June 17, 2015, when the transition to digital television from analog one was to be completed.
The ICT regulator last year also issued 17 licenses for broadcasting audiovisual programs by terrestrial radio-electric ways, two licenses for providing mobile electronic communications networks and services and two licenses for using radio channels/frequencies for operating the first two national digital terrestrial television multiplexes (A and B).
The Agency also issued 39 licenses for using numbering resources for providing electronic communications networks and services. Based on these licenses, it allotted over 433,999 telephone numbers to providers. At the start of 2016, the providers on this market held together over 7.9 million number allotted by the Agency.
