The costs included salaries and overtime for television directors and other personnel, equipment and transmission costs.

Her delegation supported current international efforts to improve remittance data and reduce transmission costs through effective and efficient systems.

Furthermore, since remittances had become an important component of capital flows, new arrangements must be put in place to lower transmission costs.

The redeployed resources cover the cost of supplementary staff resources, transmission costs, upgrade of equipment and enhancement of telecommunications facilities necessary for a daily news programme for six languages. The pilot project was launched on 4 September 2000.

For its part, Korea has in place policies to facilitate such capital transfers through the reduction of transmission costs and the liberation of overseas remittances — while our foreign direct investment in developing countries reached $5.2 billion in 2006.

Current electricity pricing structures may have discouraged the adoption of renewable energy technologies despite life-cycle cost advantages, which exist for many rural areas since transportation and/or transmission costs are not a significant portion of the total costs.

(a) Television coverage: $422,300. Includes salaries for television engineers and television directors ($74,600); rental of cameras, vans and video loop, video tape recorders, transmitters and other miscellaneous equipment for the television area, including related wiring and supplies ($219,700); transmissions costs and installation of three in-house television channels ($18,000); and production of television spots and film festival ($110,000);

Once adequate generating capacity exists, the cost of grid electricity distribution depends on the cost of transmission line construction, distance from the transmission line and population density.

The adoption of simplified and low-cost transmission and distribution options in Tunisia and a focus on efficiency and economies of scale in South Africa have contributed to the success of electrification programmes in those countries.

The provision of telecommunication services needs to be reliable and stable, and the cost of transmission acceptable. In some situations, the infrastructure issue may be taken care of by the private investor itself.