New agency prepares Georgia for digital switch

A Digital Broadcasting Agency will be established in Georgia in preparation for the country’s digital change-over in 2015.

Parliament has discussed the project and revealed the new agency would provide the development of the digital broadcasting ahead of Georgia’s change-over in June 2015.

The Digital Broadcasting Agency is an official entity of the Ministry of Economy in Georgia and will be granted 20 million GEL by the Ministry.

It will be responsible for creating broadcasting and electronic communication policies, which will boost the transition of Public Broadcasting and other TVs to digital broadcasting.

The agreement to establish an agency was accepted in 2006 at a Geneva conference, which announced Georgia and other Caucasian countries and Iran will switch to digital broadcasting on June 15, 2015.

The agency will close in 2015 once the digital change-over has taken place.