Global Communications Newsletter

Belgrade hosted the first ministerial summit on the digital dividend in Central and Eastern Europe, the South East Europe Ministerial Summit on the Digital Dividend. The event was organized by the Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society in cooperation with GSMA, the GSM Association, on June 15¿16, 2010 and brought together representatives of 13 countries (ministry and regulatory bodies) in the region: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and Turkey; operators (Telekom Serbija, T-Mobile, VIP Mobile, Vodafone Group, etc.); manufacturers (Ericsson), consultants (Europe Economics, Quotient Associates), associations (ITU, GSMA, EBU, etc.) with the aim to start developing a unified approach to the allocation of the ¿digital dividend¿ band, 790¿862 MHz, the spectrum to be freed up by the switchover from analog to digital TV, in South East Europe.