Transcript DIGITAL RADIO ON AIR NOW... THE INTERNATIONAL STORY Göran Arvedahl Chairman Regulatory and Spectrum Committee www.worlddab.org.

DIGITAL RADIO ON AIR NOW...
THE INTERNATIONAL STORY
Göran Arvedahl
Chairman Regulatory and Spectrum Committee
www.worlddab.org
RADIO:
IT’S BIGGER THAN YOU THINK!
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Radio: the most trusted medium in Europe and an €11
billion business
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80% of Europeans listen to radio for 3 hours per day on
average, with listening on the rise
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Commercial radio consists of 5,100 stations and a total
revenue of €4 billion
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70 million radio sets sold per year Europe wide
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Radio still has enormous growth potential
DAB DIGITAL RADIO:
IT’S A CLEVER TECHNOLOGY!
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Eureka 147 DAB System - a proven, mature and reliable
technology, available NOW
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Recommended by the ITU in 1995
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Designed for mobile, fixed and portable reception
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More efficient use of spectrum
- broadcasters can provide more choice to listeners
- plus, the opportunity for broadcast data services
DAB DIGITAL RADIO IS REAL!
• Up to 600 different DAB Digital Radio services are on air
worldwide
• Wide variety of receivers available at affordable prices,
from €80
- includes home tuners, kitchen radios, in-car
receivers, PCI cards, CD players, clock radios,
hand-held portable devices, boomboxes
• Over 300 million people around the world are now able
to listen to DAB Digital Radio
DAB STATUS WORLDWIDE
Canada 
Europe
China + HK
+ Taiwan + Korea
India
Asia 
• Up to 600 DAB channels On Air
• Over 300m population covered
• In Europe, leaders are UK, and
Germany
S.Africa 
Australia 
DAB DIGITAL RADIO IS HERE…!
DAB DIGITAL RADIO IS HERE…!
Why is RRC 04/05 important for
DAB implementation?
• Available frequencies in the 1.5 GHz band are suitable
for local coverage.
• Band III is more suitable for wide area coverage.
• There is not enough available spectrum in band III to
safeguard the T-DAB implementation.
Analogue switch-off in band III
• Analogue TV will remain for a long time.
• Some countries have succeeded to squeeze in T-DAB
blocks into the analogue TV spectrum, and have started
T-DAB transmissions.
• In Europe there is an established plan for these
frequencies.
• RRC 04/05 will make a plan for digital broadcasting in
band III for Radio and TV.
Implementation strategy for T-DAB
• More spectrum is needed in band III to accommodate
T-DAB in Region 1, especially for wide area coverage.
• Spectrum can be available in steps, when analogue TV
is switched off, allowing T-DAB growth in band III.
• Provisions must be made in RRC 04/05 to ease the
introduction of T-DAB in countries, who so wish, while
still protecting other services in neighbouring countries.