Lag in digital broadcasting

According to an OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) report, Hungary has lagged behind in the introduction of digital terrestrial broadcasting.

The gap with OECD members is to be understood, as serious steps have been taken towards introduction in all member countries, while there is only one strategic goal in Hungary, which envisages the digitalisation of all terrestrial broadcasting by 2012.

The OECD has also found positive changes in the domestic telecommunications market. This is the case with fixed telephone service, where connection time has decreased and the quality of service has increased. According to the report, in 1993 you had to wait an average of 3 years for a phone line, while that time has now been reduced to three days. The quality of service is also showing a drastic improvement, with fifty-five failures per hundred fixed lines in 1990, but according to the current survey, this ratio is now approaching zero per hundred.

According to a recent OECD survey, mobile phone tariffs have also fallen significantly over the past three years, jumping from last place among OECD member countries to eighteenth.