Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has put back analogue switch off (ASO) until June 30, 2018.
Quoting Leonid Yevdochenko, the head of the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection, Mediasat reports that this has been done due to “the existence of a number of unresolved financial and socio-economic problems that hamper the process of transition from analogue to digital broadcasting.”
A draft Cabinet resolution on putting back the date was approved last month, while in May Yuriy Artemenko, the chairman of the regulator National Council, explained why the transition to digital broadcasting could not be completed this year.
As a result of the decision, simulcasting in analogue and digital will continue until the end of next June.
Ukraine has adopted the DVB-T2 standard for digital terrestrial broadcasting.
