The General Satellite Corporation to cooperate with the Regional Commonwealth in the Field of Communications (RCC)

The General Satellite Corporation will take part in activities of the Regional Commonwealth in the Field of Communications (RCC), in particular of the Coordination Group for Digital Broadcasting.

Companies and organizations can only cooperate with the RCC if they are recommended by the Communications Administrations (CA) of their country. General Satellite will share its experience in the course of developing guidelines and standards for digital broadcasting in the CIS countries. Given the close coordination of the RCC with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), it is in fact an opportunity to discuss the development of TV broadcasting with industry leaders. The first step will be the Corporation's report on the development of the specifications requirements for the reception equipment and the network planning basics for digital terrestrial TV broadcasting.

Reference:
Regional Commonwealth in the Field of Communications (RCC) was set up on December 17, 1991 in Moscow by the heads of Communications Administrations (CA) of newly independent states. Members of the RCC currently are: Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, and Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Finland, Estonia have observer status.

The RCC principal tasks are the promotion of mutually beneficial relations between the RCC CAs in order to harmonize the development of communication networks and facilities; coordination of scientific-and-technical policy, radio spectrum management, tariff policies for communication services and reciprocal payments, staff training; liaison and cooperation with international organizations for communications and informatization, information interchange, etc. The Coordinating Board decisions do not remain on paper but are translated into actions.