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Algeria details its DTV plans
Mohamed Benfodil, president of the Algerian Independent ICT Authority (ARPT), has given details of the country’s move to digital terrestrial broadcasting during a two-day ITU seminar in Algiers, reports Broadband TV News.
He confirmed that Algeria would move to digital TV by 2009, in line with ITU proposals to migrate all broadcasting services to the digital format by 2014.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 17th December 2007



Algeria begins the transition to DTT
Eutelsat has signed a deal with Telediffusion d’Algeria (TDT) to broadcast Algeria’s national Digital Terrestrial Television package of television and radio channels.
The launch of the new platform is part of the government’s objective to manage the transition of the country’s broadcasting sector into a fully digital environment.
In the initial phase, digital channels will be available direct from satellite in all areas of Algeria and in the second phase the signals will also be delivered to DTT transmitters for terrestrial broadcast.
Free-to-air broadcasts from the Atlantic Bird ™ 3 will begin on December 1st 2007 and then from the DTT service after installation of the first transmitters, scheduled for delivery in 2008.
TDA’s objective is to ensure access to DTT channels for all Algerian homes as quickly as possible, both in urban and most rural parts of Algeria.
Source: PRnewswire