By 2015, Tajikistan will change over to digital broadcasting. This statement was made at a meeting of the Regional Cooperation Commission on the Regulations of International Broadcasting. The meeting took place in Minsk, capital of Belarus.

It is expected that by 2015, the digital broadcasting will completely supersede the currently applied analogue broadcasting. This innovation will allow to broadcast more programs within the same frequency domains; the quality of such broadcasting is significantly better, and the energy expenditures are much lower. However, TV viewers would need to change their antiquated TV-receivers or to buy special accessories transferring analogue signals into digital ones.

“The whole world is changing over to digital broadcasting”, — said Obidjon Karimov, official of the Tajik Ministry of Transport and Communication, and a participant of the forum in Minsk. Karimov noted that Tajikistan pays due attention to the development and adoption of the latest technologies, access to the Internet and mobile communications. He stressed that the telecommunication domain in the country economy requires long-term decisions in order to be prepared to the rapidly changing technologies around the globe. “It is very appropriate that communication experts on the post-Soviet space are coordinating their approaches for the period up to 2011,” – said Karimov.

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