Press briefing of Cabinet Decision taken on 2010-12-15

Introduction of Digital Technology or Television Transmission in Sri Lanka

- It has been proposed to convert the terrestrial broadcasting to digital technology in order to keep pace with the world trends and to provide the capability to transmit several channels using a single frequency resulting optimal utilization of the frequency spectrum available for television broadcasting. Most of the countries in the world as well as in the Asian Region use this system for television broadcasting. Cabinet approval was granted to implement the relevant proposals.