Digital UK, the body responsible for supporting DTT in the UK, has published a study, The defragmentation dividend – A more efficient use of the UHF band, which outlines options to deliver a major boost in spectrum capacity for mobile broadband services. The study, by telecoms specialist Aetha Consulting, explores the scope for a fundamental […]
Cape Verde has completed the first phase of the implementation of the DTT project. According to the National Communications Authority (ANAC), four islands (Santiago, Maio, Sal and São Vicente) are covered, on which more than 75 per cent of the population live. The initial goal was to cover 60 per cent of the population. ANAC […]
The telecommunications ministry (Mintel) in Ecuador has abandoned plans to switch off its analogue TV broadcasting, originally planned for this month. Mintel says that adoption of DTT is not now likely until this time next year. Local press reports add, perhaps cynically, “if then”. The ministry says it has delayed analogue switch-off because it wanted […]
India’s Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (MIB) has issued a tough and uncompromising warning to the few ‘Phase IV’ cable operators that they must switch off their analogue transmissions by tomorrow, April 1st. All of India’s other regions (that is the cities and regions covered by Phases I, II and III) have complied. Phase IV […]
In one of the largest switchover procedures in German broadcast history, German broadcast infrastructure provider Media Broadcast will press the start button for the HDTV launch on DTT over the night of March 28th to March 29th. In the so-called ‘Magic Night’, the service provider will change over hundreds of transmitters throughout Germany to distribute […]
India’s Information & Broadcasting Ministry (MIB) says its previously stated analogue switch-off date for broadcasters must remain as March 31st, and it will not extend the already much-delayed introduction of addressable digital set-top boxes. Rajyavardhan Rathore, the Minister of state said the Phase I, II and III of the nation’s Cable TV Digitisation was accomplished […]
Norway has become the first country in the world to start digital switchover (DSO) from FM to DAB+. National FM networks will be switched off region by region – starting in Nordland and progressing across the whole country throughout 2017. The final regions, Troms and Finnmark, will complete the process in December. “Today’s digital switchover […]
The south-west African country of Angola is seeking financial help from China in order to convert its TV transmissions from analogue to digital. Angola’s 26 million people have a somewhat limited choice of terrestrial channels (four in total, including an evangelical Christian channel). TPA1 and TPA2 are government stations while TV Zimbo, launched in 2008, […]
Not for the first time India has adjusted its cut-off dates for the adoption of digital TV, and in particular the mandated usage of digitally addressable set-top boxes. India’s Ministry of Information & Broadcasting has previously stated that its Phase III and Phase IV schemes for the installation of digital set-top boxes would have an […]
Industry players attending SET Mid-West, the Seminar on Broadcast Technology and New Media, organised by SET the Brazilian Society for Television Engineering (Sociedade Brasileira de Engenharia de Televisão) in Brasilia, dealing with issues such as the challenges of switching off analogue TV signals in Brazil’s capital city, have drawn attention to the absence of coverage […]