Sri Lanka, Nov. 25 -- The government has decided to suspend the issuance of new licences for the operation of terrestrial analogue television channels in Sri Lanka.

At present, 24 television channels, including five state-owned media channels, are operating in the country using licenses issued to 16 institutions to operate channels under the existing terrestrial analogue television technology in Sri Lanka.

At present, television channels are operating using the maximum capacity of the frequency spectrum, and therefore the Ministry of Mass Media initiated the Digital Non-Territorial Television Broadcasting Project this year to implement a single digital terrestrial broadcasting system with the objective of providing a high-quality digita...