Nadi, Fiji, 4-6 July 2011

Digital dividend from broadcasting and mobile perspectives

Cristian GomezHead, Validation Group, Space

Services Division, ITU-R

ITU-T Workshop on Bridging the Standardization Gapand Interactive Training Session

(Nadi, Fiji, 4 – 6 July 2011 )

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Digital dividend from broadcasting and mobile perspectives

This session will provide an overview of the current harmonization efforts towards analogue television switch-off in the different ITU regions and also a discussion of the harmonization landscape for mobile broadband in the digital dividend spectrum.

Overview

Digital Dividend ≠ Digital Divide!

OverviewDigital Dividend: digital terrestrial TV

Use spectrum more efficiently: more TV in less spectrum

More spectrum for mobile broadband: 4G

Innovative radio technologies: white space

Europe + Africa: GE06agreement for digital broadcasting

• 2001 – ITU Council decided to plan for digital broadcasting in the European Broadcasting Area (ST61)

• 2002 – decided to include countries in Africa and Middle East

• 2002 – RCC countries included by Plenipotentiary conference (Marrakesh)

Europe + Africa: GE06agreement for digital broadcasting.Plan for 120 countries

Europe + Africa: GE06Agreement

TV frequency bands in question:

VHF Band III: 174-230 MHz

UHF Bands IV & V: 470-862 MHz

Technology: Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB-T)For television with four reception modes of fixed, mobile, portable indoor and outdoor

In Europe + Africa: GE06Agreement. Objectives

- Agree on date for Transition to Digital- Establish a digital frequency plan- Adopt an Agreement that sets out the procedures for

making changes to the frequency plan and to bring the frequency assignments into operation.

Europe + Africa: GE06Agreement

The Agreement entered into force on 17 June 2007

Transition: 17 June 2015, but some countries preferred an additional five-year extension for the VHF band (174-230 MHz).

At the end of the transition period, countries may continue to operate analogue broadcasting stations provided that these stations

do not cause unacceptable interferencedo not claim protection

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Transition map

UHF: 17/6/2015

VHF: 17/6/2015 17/6/2020 17/6/2020

World overview: DTT adoption

Analogue switch off: spectrum decisions for mobile broadband

Implications: hardware availability

More digital TV… less analogue hardware

New mobile technologies… market choices

US band plan

US band plan

US band plan

European Union band plan

APT band plan

4G mobile broadband landscape

USA: 698 – 806 MHz(2 x 12 MHz blocks + 2 x 11 MHz blocks)

Europe: 790 – 862 MHz (2 x 30 MHz blocks with 11 MHz center gap)

Asia Pacific: 698 – 806 MHz(2 x 45 MHz blocks with 10 MHz center gap)

4G mobile broadband landscape

LTE & WiMax(channel sizes up to 20 MHz for maximum data rate≈ 100 Mbps)

Roaming considerations

Markets for sourcing handsets and base stations

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Thank you…