BDT Activities and Assistance
Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting
István Bozsóki
Head of Division
BDT/IEE/SBD
Broadcasting Related Activities
 Guidelines
 Projects
 Country assistance
 Country case studies
 Spectrum Management Training Program (SMTP)
 Others
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Guidelines
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Guidelines for Transition to Digital
Broadcasting
 Intended to provide information and
recommendation
• On policy, technologies, network
planning, customer awareness and
business planning
• for the smooth transition to Digital
Terrestrial Television Broadcasting
(DTTB) and introduction of Mobile
Television Broadcasting
 Prepared in 2010 for Africa
 1st Revision (2012) for ASP adding a
section on archives migration
 2nd revision (2014) for global
including Satellite TV, Cable TV, IPTV
http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Spectrum-Broadcasting/Documents/Guidelines%20final.pdf
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Projects
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Projects funded by
 Republic of Korea
 Japan
 Australia
 Latin-American Development Bank (CAF)
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Country assistance
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 ITU assisted a number of Member countries in developing
roadmap for transition from analogue to digital broadcasting
 Around 30 countries since 2009 for establishing national goals,
strategies, key activities and so forth
 Africa Region: Angola, Ethiopia, Mali, Gabon, DRC, Equatorial
Guinea
 ASP Region: Bangladesh, Bhutan (also an update), Cambodia,
Fiji, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Maldives, Micronesia, Mongolia,
Myanmar, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka,
Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tonga (also revision of the roadmap),
Vanuatu, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Kiribati, Nauru, Samoa and
Solomon Islands
 AMS: Guyana, Haiti (CONATEL to visit Trinidad and Tobago)
 Palestine
 Also from BDT’s direct assistance program
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In Latin-America (recent)
 Spanish
 Guidelines translated
 Colombia
 Paraguay
 Bolivia
 Venezuela
 Panama
 Costa Rica
 Dominican Republic
 English
 Jamaica
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Working method
 Questionnaire
 NRT (National Roadmap Team) requested
 First mission for presentation of the roadmap Guideline, fact
finding, meeting with stake holders
 Preparation of the first draft roadmap
 Comments
 Second mission
 Finalization of the Roadmap
 Worskhop on presenting the results and discussing country
experiences
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Country case studies and reports
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Country Case Studies
• Thailand
• Japan
• Australia
Reports
Offering information to Member countries
• “Digital Dividend”, “Trends in Broadcasting
• Report on Interactive Multimedia Services in ASP
• Making Television Accessible
• DSO database – see demonstration later
http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Spectrum-broadcasting/Pages/DSO/Default.aspx
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Spectrum Management Training Program
SMTP
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Addressed problem
• Today there are no formal holistic SM education programs, except some ad hoc
commercial or public courses such as ITU BR seminars, USTTI
• Large administrations train SM staff by seconding them to experienced workers,
but this offers narrowed vision and no formal quality check
• Many smaller administrations, especially in developing countries, do not have even
such option, but must rely solely on ad hoc courses
Solution
• ITU established Spectrum Management Training Program:
– Unified course, offering students across the globe access to state-of-the-art
holistic SM training and forward-looking professional vision
– Formalised assessment ensuring minimal quality of professional education
– Certification to give international recognition, with possible option of
university credits/diploma
Pilot
• OM1 “Legal Basis and Regulatory Framework of Spectrum Management” – online,
English, December 2014 – January 2015
https://academy.itu.int
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Other activities (1)
• ITU-D Study Group 1 Question 8/1 (previous SG2 Question 11-3/2)
• Cooperation with broadcasting organizations (WBU, EBU, ABU/AIBD
etc.)
• Presentation at training seminars and workshops
• Training on “Interactive Multimedia Services and Pay TV” in ASP
• Regional Workshop on Spectrum Management and Transition to Digital
Terrestrial Television Broadcasting for Europe and CIS, Budapest,
Hungary, 5-7 May 2015
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Digital terrestrial television transition, before ASO;
Post transition activities
Utilization of the Digital dividend;
Spectrum management structure and tools
http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Regional-Presence/Europe/
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Other activities (2)
• Asia-Media Summit Pre-Summit event
– 25 May 2015, Kuala Lumpur
• Symposium on Digital Broadcasting Transition
– 17 June 2015
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Digital Terrestrial
Television Broadcasting
(DTTB)
DSO database
Background
• Council 2014, 7 May, request from Kenya:
ITU to provide an analogue to digital switchover stocktaking for assisting
the Member States in their migration process.
• Information from relevant surveys, questionnaires of the ITU-D
and ITU-R and other sources
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ITU-D Question 11-3/2 Questionnaire, 2012;
ITU-D Question 11-3/2 Final report, 2014;
ITU-D Questionnaire to European countries, 2013 and a follow-up in 2014;
ITU-D Questionnaire to Arab Countries, 2013;
ITU-D and ITU-R meetings, workshop, seminars, frequency coordination
meetings;
– ITU-R SG6 Questionnaire, 2014, results published in Report ITU-R BT.2302-0;
– African Union Commission Survey, 2013;
– DIGITAG, 2014.
• Entered to the database
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Website
• Summary of the basic information from countries
• Relevant events (e.g. workshops, frequency coordination meetings,
seminars)
• Relevant publications (e.g. ITU-R and ITU-D documents, roadmaps,
workshop presentations)
• Relevant websites (e.g. ITU-R and ITU-D, broadcasting organizations, GE-06)
• Contacts
• Information sources (list of relevant surveys, questionnaires of the ITU-D
and ITU-R and other sources)
• Will be accessible both form BDT and BR web pages
Circular Letter BDT/IEE/SBD/DM/014 from the BDT Director (23 February 2015)
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Given the dynamically changing status of the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT)
deployment and in order to enable all administrations to benefit from the latest
status and information concerning the Digital migration, Administrations are invited
to make the necessary update to ensure that their actual status and data are
correctly reflected on the portal.
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Public Website
Data Miner
Figures
Summary
Country Profiles
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Website features
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Data Management
Database
Countries
Administrations
Digital
Switch
Over Plan
ITU Administration
Websites
Website
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Country
Documents
Workshops
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Additional developments
• Filtering on the different items (e.g. by region,
date, technology) √
• Detailed displaying of the available information
(e.g. for a country, relevant events, documents,
websites) √
• Displaying information on a map √
• Date entry/update possibility for the
administrations √
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Website demonstration
http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/SpectrumBroadcasting/Pages/DSO/Default.aspx
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THANK YOU !!
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