Frequencies of the leading TV channels will forbid to use for other purposes

Frequencies of the leading TV channels will forbid to use for other purposes
The frequencies allocated for translation all-Russian TV and radio channels, it will be impossible to intend for other purposes without consent of these speakers


The frequencies allocated for translation all-Russian TV and radio channels, it will be impossible to intend for other purposes without consent of these speakers. The draft of the relevant decree of the president of Russia ("News" have a copy) prepared the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications. The decree purpose, according to its text, – providing the population with a large number of teleradio channels with the guaranteed quality, taking into account a strategic importance of a network of a broadcasting.

Because of limitation of a frequency resource periodically there is a question of its redistribution. So, last year the general director of "Channel One" Konstantin Ernst and the head of the National Association of Telespeakers (NAT) Eduard Sagalayev asked, respectively, the government and the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications to leave to television the range of 703-862 MHz. It were going to transfer for the fourth generation of cellular communication – LTE. In September the president of Russia charged to the largest cellular to the companies and TV channels to reach compromise in this question.

As Alexey Volin explained to "News" of the deputy head of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications, the destiny of the range of 703-862 MHz is already decided.

– According to the existing arrangements those frequencies which the television companies have, remain at their order, – he reported. Future decree of the president prepared the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications, according to Volin, will allow communications operators and the television companies to begin interaction on sharing of frequencies.

This document the decree of the president issued in 2009 "About the all-Russian obligatory public TV channels and radio channels" is supplemented with the new subparagraph: "The strips of radio frequencies allocated for implementation of a land on-air television broadcasting and (or) broadcasting and radio land translation of the all-Russian obligatory public TV channels and radio channels cannot be allocated for other purposes without prior consent of speakers...".

Speakers explain need for a considerable frequency resource with gradual transition of TV channels to the standard of a high definition (HDTV).

– Transition of television to HDTV is possible only in the presence of enough frequencies, – the head of NAT information and analysis center Vladimir Livshits told. According to him, the channel of a high definition needs by 3-4 times bigger range, than usual.

– In land radio telecasting the problem of distribution of frequencies really exists, – the deputy director general of VGTRK Dmitry Mednikov speaks.

It is necessary to tell that it is possible to provide telecasting and in the LTE networks – especially if to allocate for them considerable frequency range. But, apparently, in Russia more traditional way of delivery of radio TV to the consumer will develop more strongly.

The draft of the decree also supposes to assign to Federal State Unitary Enterprise Rossiyskaya teleradiotranslyatsionnaya set the status of uniform state communications operator concerning all radio multiplexes.

The head of information and analytical agency TelecomDaily Denis Kuskov considers that in the large cities traditional radio TV has a number of advantages before a broadcasting to mobile gadgets with support of LTE.

– The on-air television broadcasting stablely and allows to provide high-quality reception, – the analyst noted.

Representatives of MTS, "Vympelcom" and "MegaFon" refrained from comments on a subject.

– Deficiency of frequencies – a key problem of the Russian telecommunication market in the short term. The this market is more developed, the less free range remains for further distribution, – declared in the press service of "Tele2 Russia".



Alexander Bogdanov
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 No. of 21.05.14