The Posts and Telecommunications Ministry plans to grant approval to 18 of the 41 companies and groups that applied for licenses to begin next-generation interactive digital broadcasting services via communications satellites, ministry officials said Thursday.
The Ministry will finalize the selection of qualified broadcasters after the Radio Regulatory Council — an advisory panel to the telecommunications minister — endorses the ministry proposal at a meeting slated for Monday, the officials said.
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