Details are emerging of plans to launch a DTT service in Ukraine. According to local sources, it has already been decided that the country will employ both MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 compression on three and two national multiplexes respectively. A further two will be allocated to HD and one to DVB-H services. Although the process of channel allocation has already begun, it is widely felt that the planned May 2009 launch date for the service is unrealistic.