Features of the digital dividend implementation in conditions of great population density discontinuity and limitation of the frequency resource

The paper considers efficient utilization of the additional spectrum called the “digital dividend”, which will appear after switchover from analogue television (TV) broadcasting to digital one, in some countries of the Commonwealths of Independent States (CIS) where certain specific conditions take place. In some countries (Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, etc.) there are great variations of population density across the country territory that cause essential differences in degree of TV and mobile communications penetrations in various regions. Other specific feature of the majority of the CIS countries is the necessity of securing of an electromagnetic compatibility in the course of deployment of new mobile communication and digital TV broadcasting networks in frequency bands which are already used by other radio applications according to some specific provisions of their national frequency allocation tables. In view of above mentioned features, for the optimum released spectrum allocation in these conditions it is necessary to carry out profound analysis of all technical, economic and managerial factors with reference to each administrative region of the country. The given paper on an example of the Russian Federation considers approaches which urged to solve these and some other problems.