OREANDA-NEWS. June 25, 2015. 49 countries have already made the transition from analogue to digital terrestrial television broadcasting.

With the adoption of the Geneva 2006 agreement at the Regional Radiocommunication Conference 2006, the ITU set a final date of June 17, 2015 for the transition of the countries in Region 1 (Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and the Islamic Republic of Iran) to digital terrestrial television broadcasting at frequency bands of 174-230 MHz and 470-790 MHz.

As the ITU reports in its press release, the following countries in the world, including Region 1, have made the transition from analog to digital broadcasting: Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malawi, Malta, Mauritius, Monaco, Mongolia, Mozambique, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Rwanda, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Vatican.

About 57 countries are in the transition process, 20 countries have not yet started this transition, and 71 countries are listed under the "unknown" category in the ITU press release.

The first country to make the transition from analog to digital terrestrial television was Luxembourg in 2006. Andorra, Finland and Sweden switched off the analog TV in 2007, Switzerland and Germany in 2008, Norway in January 2009, and the US in June 2009 respectively.