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Mongolia will migrate to the digital system from August 1, 2014 onwards. A ceremony to launch this action took place on Thursday on the Chingis Khaan square in the UB city with participation of some organizations and enterprises displaying their products and services of progressive technologies. Out of four types of digital systems Mongolia has chosen the DVB-T2 system or the European technology. Highly developed countries such as Japan and South Korea spent 5 years to migrate to the digital system, but Mongolia is able to do it within one and half years, meaning that it would be fully migrate to the digital system by January 1, 2016 by turning off the present analogue system.
At the 2007 World Radiocommunication Conference, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) made a decision to transmit all TV and radio channels across the world to the digital system. Pursuing this decision, the government of Mongolia approved a national programme on this migration. For the time being, there are ten transmission stations in the capital city and 244 stations in localities. All these stations will be turned on, so TV and radio audience can receive the digital system-based programs.

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