Foreign companies will be allowed to participate in the digitalisation process in Russia, according Aleksandr Zharov, the country’s deputy minister of mass communications and telecommunications.
Quoted by RAI Novosti, he added that market conditions would apply, with foreign companies particularly encouraged to take part in tenders for transmitters.
Russia is undertaking the transition to digital broadcasting in two stages, with the first one due to be completed in 2011 and ASO set for four years later.
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