Slovakia - Current situation - History
24.08.2010
Slovakia currently has no digital radio broadcasts of any kind, nor are any trials known to be on air.
In 2002 a report entitled "Strategy and Technical Criteria for Implementation of Terrestrial Digital Audio Broadcating in T-DAB System" was submitted to the government for approval.
The original intention was to start regular DAB transmissions in L-band in the western part of Slovakia in 2006, and to later start DAB transmissions in VHF. There has been no recent update from Slovakia and therefore details of the latest situation are unknown.
02.09.2008
According to the "Telecommunications Policy of the Slovak Republic for Years 2000-2002", approved by the Government of the Slovak Republic on 14 June 2000 (Resolution No. 440/2000), the Research Institute of Posts and Telecommunications prepared a document, "Strategy and Technical Criteria for Implementation of Terrestrial Digital Audio Broadcasting in T-DAB System", in the year 2001. Throughout 2002, the document was discussed with relevant groups, companies and Ministries and was consequently submitted to the Government for approval.
The original intention was to start regular DAB transmissions in L-band in the western part of Slovakia in 2006, and to later start DAB transmissions in VHF. There has been no recent update from Slovakia and therefore details of the latest situation are unknown.
24.01.2008
According to the "Telecommunications Policy of the Slovak Republic for Years 2000 -2002", approved by the Government of the Slovak Republic on 14 June 2000 (Resolution No. 440/2000), the Research Institute of Posts and Telecommunications prepared a document, "Strategy and Technical Criteria for Implementation of Terrestrial Digital Audio Broadcasting in T-DAB System", in the year 2001. Throughout 2002, the document was discussed with relevant groups, companies and Ministries and will consequently be submitted to the Government for approval. The intention was to start regular DAB transmission in L-band in western part of Slovakia in 2006, and to start T-DAB transmission in VHF band after DVB-T implementation, i.e. in a situation when it will be possible to switch off analogue TV transmitters working in CH12 (about 70 transmitters in Slovakia).