January 9, 2024 Public Solicitation for Organizations to Implement Digital Interference Countermeasure Project

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) will make a public solicitation from Tuesday, January 9 through Thursday, February 8, 2024, for organizations to make environmental improvements and provide support for the smooth migration of conventional broadcasting to digital terrestrial broadcasting (under a digital interference countermeasure project), which is part of the fiscal 2024 budget.

Analog terrestrial television broadcasting ended nationwide on March 31, 2012, and has migrated to terrestrial digital broadcasting. However, in some areas, terrestrial digital broadcasting reception failures continue to occur due to the abnormal propagation of radio waves, and it is necessary to take permanent measures to eliminate this problem.
Accordingly, MIC has decided to make the following public solicitation for organizations to implement a digital interference countermeasure project pertaining to the fiscal 2024 budget.
MIC makes this appeal before the fiscal 2024 budget bill passes the Diet so that eligible organizations can start the project as soon as possible. It should be kept in mind that the implementation of the project, its contents, and the financial source for the project are subject to change according to the passage of the budget bill.

Description

1. Period of submission

No later than 5:00 pm on Monday, February 8, 2023

2. Target organizations

Organizations with juridical personality

3. Target organizations, application requirements, and documents

A part of subsidies for wireless system spread support covers this digital interference countermeasure project. See the attached Public Solicitation Guidelines when applying.

4. How to submit application documents

Submit a complete set of application documents (an original and a copy) by postal mail or email (if you wish to submit your application by email, consult with the Broadcasting Technology Division in advance. It will provide you with separate instructions on how to submit your application).
Documents submitted will not be returned.

5. Screening method

After making a formal and written review of the selection, eligible organizations will be decided according to the opinions of external experts.

6. Where to submit application documents

Broadcasting Technology Division, Information and Communications Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
Central Gov’t Building No. 2 11F, 2-1-2 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-8926

7. How to obtain materials

The attached material is available for inspection and distribution at the Broadcasting Technology Division, Information and Communications Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (11th floor of MIC).

*The published material is in Japanese only.