Bosnia and Herzegovina will no longer be the only country in Europe that is not covered by a digital signal, said the Minister of Communications and Transport of BiH Edin Forto after signing the Contract for the procurement of equipment for digital transmission and broadcasting of Public RTV services in BiH, the value of which is 25.8 million BAM without VAT.
The contract was signed by the Ministry of Communications and Transport of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Consortium consisting of the company Sirius 2010 Banja Luka, as the holder of the Consortium, and Odasiljači i veze Zagreb, as a member of the Consortium. Minister Edin Forto signed the contract on behalf of the Ministry, and Momčilo Đukić, director of Sirius 2010 Banja Luka, on behalf of the Consortium.
After 18 years, when Bosnia and Herzegovina, by signing the Geneva Agreement, assumed the obligation to turn off the analog television signal by June 2015, by signing today’s Agreement, all conditions for the same have been fulfilled.
The process of digitizing TV signals in BiH began with the establishment of the Forum on Digital Television in May 2006. Three years later, in August 2009, the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina adopted the Strategy for transition from analog to digital terrestrial broadcasting in the frequency bands 174-230 MHz and 470-862 MHz in our country. It was only at the end of March 2014 that the first agreement on the digitization of TV signals in the area of Sarajevo, Banjaluka and Mostar was signed within Multiplex A.
Sarajevo, Mostar and Banjaluka are three out of a total of nine digital regions, announced the Ministry of Communications and Transport of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
