Pay DTT to launch in Belarus in DVB-T2
State-owned Belarusian incumbent telco Beltelecom is planning to launch a pay DTT service April 2013 using DVB-T2.
Source: IHS Screen Digest
Date: March 1, 2013
New DTT transmitter for Belarus
The Belarusian Ministry of ITC has announced that a new digital terrestrial TV transmitter using the DVB-T standard has been deployed in the town of Zhitkovichi in the Gomel region. The new transmitter will broadcast eight Belarusian TV-channels and the national radio station.
Source: Telecompaper
Item added: 28th November 2011
Belarus expands DVB-T coverage
Belarus' state-owned operator TVR has launched two new digital terrestrial TV transmitters using DVB-T and the MPEG-4 H.264 AVC compression standard. One of the transmitters is in the Grodno region, and the second in the Mogilyov region.
Digital TV coverage in the country has now reached 94.43%.
Source: Telecompaper
Item added: 14th November 2011
DTT coverage extended
The latest DVB-T DTT transmitter to start digital TV transmissions in Belarus is in the village of Gory in the Vitebsk region, according to the Belarusian Ministry of ITC.
The new transmitter site serves an area with a radius of 32-kilometres.
DTT coverage has now reached 94.41% of the country.
Source: Telecompaper
Item added: 10th October 2011
January 2012 ASO
Belarus has announced that it expects to complete the transition to DTT broadcasting on the 1st January 2012, three years ahead of the original schedule.
The news was announced at the 13th meeting of the country’s Coordination Group for Digital Broadcasting (KGTSV), held at the headquarters of the company General Satellite and reported by CNews and AKTR.
The ASO has been brought forward because there are already 51 DTT transmitters covering 82% of the country and 93% of the population.
Belarus with the help of Rhode & Schwarz equipment recently (May/June) conducted a DVB-T2 trial and its neighbour Russia has just announced agreement for full scale DVB-T2 test zones to help with its complete transition to DTT by 2015.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 24th July 2011
New DVB-T transmitters
The Belarusian Radio and TV Broadcasting Centre has launched four new DVB-T transmitters, two in the Minsk region and the other two in the Grodno region. The centre's DVB-T network currently covers 94.2% of the country using the MPEG-4, H.264 AVC standard.
Source: Telecompaper
Item added: 11th July 2011
DVB-T2 broadcasting trial planned
The Belarus telecommunications company OJSC (Giprosvyaz) plans to conduct a DVB-T2 trial in partnership with the State Supervisory Department for Telecommunications of the Republic of Belarus (BelGIE), Beltelecom and the Belarusian Radio-Television Broadcasting Centre (BRTBC).
The trial will take place during May and June 2011 and leading equipment manufacturers are asked to participate.
Giprosvyaz have begun to develop frequency plans for the second and third phases of the country’s move to digital terrestrial television (DTT) broadcasting. As part of this plan OAO Promsvyaz has been contracted to develop and design documents for equipment control and monitor the reception of digital television broadcasting in the areas of interference between simultaneous single-frequency networks.
Source: UP Giprosvyaz
Item added: 4th April 2011
DTT coverage over 93%
According to data produced by the Belarusian Radio-Television Broadcasting Centre (BRTPC), DTT signals covered 93.48% of the country by the beginning of January, compared with 60% a year earlier.
Belarus’s one DTT multiplex was launched in the Minsk area in July 2005. By September 2009 all major population centres had been covered. The service uses MPEG-4, H.264. coding.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 8th January 2011
Pay-DTT service for Minsk
Cosmos TV has confirmed the launch a 20 channel Pay-DTT service using DVB-T in Minsk from the 1st June. During the next three months the number of channels on offer is planned to grow to 28.
The service is expected to be receivable within a 50km radius of the Kolodishchi transmitter.
Residents in the Minsk region already have access to 8 free to air DTT channels.
The state program for digital television states that by 2015 all citizens of the republic of Belarus will have access to digital TV channels.
Source: CosmosTV
Item added: 7th June 2010
Beltelecom to launch DTT service
Beltelecom’s deputy director general, Gennady Melnikov, has announced that his company is to launch a DTT service.
DTT is to be the next delivery platform for the company which already has an IPTV service. He went on to say that 80% of people in rural areas and 15% of the population of Belarus as a whole are potential DTT users.
The service, branded Zala, will initially cover 60% of the country and offer viewers up to 30 TV channels. Its coverage will rise to 95% by 2015
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 30th April 2010
Cosmos TV to launch on DTT
The Minsk-based cable operator Cosmos TV has finished its preparations for the launch of a DTT service, reports Broadband TV News.
The operator plans to offer the service to the existing DTT broadcaster users, providing them with a programme package consisting of 32 SD channels.
Cosmos TV was formed in 1993 and has operated a cable network in the Belarusian capital since 2001. This currently has over 100,000 cable TV and 50,000 Internet users.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 18th May 2009
DTT available to half the population
At the beginning of the year DTT could be received by just under half (46.77%) of people in Belarus, according to official statistics published by Cableman.
DTT was launched in the capital, Minsk, in July 2005 and currently offers five TV channels and one radio station. DTT services are also available in several other towns and cities including Grodo and Mogilev.
In the cable sector, the MMDS operation Kosmos TV is due to launch a commercial digital TV operation next month.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 16th February 2009
Digital Broadcasting Network to cover Belarus by 2015
By 2010, terrestrial digital broadcasting using the DVB system will be available in all the regional centres of Belarus and by 2015 the broadcasting network will cover the whole country, according to an article on E-Belarus.org.
The piece goes on to say that these, the objectives of the State Programme for Digital TV and Radio Broadcasting were adopted by the Belarusian government on February 16, 2006. At present, digital broadcasting is only available in Minsk.
Source: E-Belarus.org
Item added: 21st March 2006
Belarus to switch to Digital TV Broadcasting by 2015
In July 2005 the Ministry of Communication and Information, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Finance are to submit "The state programme of Digital TV broadcast introduction" for approval.
According to the draft programme technical and judicial regulations will be worked out during 2005-2008 as well as pilot trials some of which have already begun. Beltelecom will also install fibre-optic connections between TV broadcast stations in preparation for the switch to an all digital service. Equipment modernization will take place during 2005 - 2009 and by 2010 Belarusian TV producers Horizont and Vitiaz are to develop domestic digital TV receivers.
The government intend that DVB services will be launched in the whole of Belarus by 2015.
Source: RedNova
Item added: 14th July 2005
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Belarus launches DVB-T pilot
The Belarus National State Teleradio Company has launched terrestrial digital broadcasting for Minsk and the Minsk region.
The broadcaster launched a pilot project of four digital TV channels and a radio channel on 28 December, 2004, at a cost of €312,000, according to the deputy minister of communications, Valdimir Teslyuk.
At the second stage of the project, digital terrestrial broadcasting will be launched in five regional centres. At the third stage, the project will expand to ten further regional centers, at a cost of €3m. The total budget of the project comes to €4.9m.
According to the government’s digital broadcasting development strategy, Belarusian state companies Horizont and Vityaz will launch digital TV receiver and DVB-T application production later this year.
Source: DMeurope.com 04/01/2005, Mikhail Doroshevich
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