ITU activities in transition to DTT

Eun-Ju, Kim, Ph.D

Regional Director, ITU Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

Agenda
Digital Broadcasting:
Challenges & Approaches ?

ITU Activities for Digital Broadcasting:

International regulations and questions
Regional projects and activities

ITU Activities in Asia-Pacific region

Digital Broadcasting

Why Digital Broadcasting ?

More Programmes

Interactive service
High Quality A&V
Portability and mobility
Pay TV platform
Efficient Use of spectrum
Digital Dividend
Convergence and Competition

What are the main challenges of

analogue switch-over ?
Legal and Political issues
Program editors, Licensing, number and ownership of Multiplexes,
Network Operators, Public TV services, commercial TVs, local TV
Standards, Analogue Switch Off (ASO), etc.

Technical issues

e.g.
Standards, compression system (MPEG2/MPEG4), Spectrum
availability, network planning (MFN/SFN), coverage areas, end
users equipment (Set-Top Box/ D-TV), etc.; and
Analogue broadcasting will no longer be protected after 17 June
2015

Economical related issues

Introduction of new business model, transition costs, subsidizing
vulnerable people, etc.

Allocation of digital dividend

Digital TV Standards
e.g.,

ATSC Advanced Television System Committee in USA

Currently in USA and Canada
Mainly terrestrial Standard

ISDB Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting

Mainly in Japan, Philippines, Brazil and some south America
Extended to form such as terrestrial, cable, and satellite standard

DVB Digital Video Broadcasting

Most of the countries in the world
Developed through a consortium known as DVB in Europe
Many variants or forms of DVT operation

DMB-T Digital Multimedia Broadcasting

China is working on DMB-T as terrestrial transmission

How to approach: e.g.,

Roadmap ?
Objectives of To implement strategy and related to project
Roadmap:
planning
Management To match short-term and long-term goals
Forecasting To indicate the main activities to achieve the
goals
Tool

Helping to reach consensus about

requirements and solutions
Three main
Providing a mechanism to help forecast the
Reasons
key milestones
For Roadmap
Providing a framework to help plan and
coordinate the steps needed

How to approach: e.g.,

Working Methods ?

Can be established by Minister/decree/law or other means;

Works as advisor bringing wider stakeholder focus;
Assists in developing the roadmap etc.

Establish policy and government endorsement, legislation, and/or

budgets;
Prepare for Regulations, Licence models, Service/Spectrum planning,
standards etc.;
Issue licence or equivalent with appropriate oversight etc.

Broadcasters
&Transmission
Providers

Transmit network construction/operation;

Recover analogue equipment post switch off;
Work with all of the above for analogue switch off processes;
Provide programming and/or digital network etc.

ITU Expert

Introduce ITU Guidelines for Migration as a resource;

Facilitate NRT in development of Roadmap & transfer knowledge;
Share experiences of other countries as relevant to the discussion;
Consult with NRT, and other stakeholders to clarify needs of the country
Assist with framework and contents of roadmap document etc.

National
Roadmap
Team

Government
Agencies

ITU Activities in Digital Broadcasting

ITU activities for digital broadcasting (1)

ITU-R: Regional Radiocommunication Conference 2006 :
Frequency plan for the digital terrestrial broadcasting
Deadline to switch over for region 1 countries: 17 June 2015
(some countries and bands in 2020)

ITU-R: Recommendations, Handbooks, & Reports (BT.2140-2)

on digital broadcasting technologies

ITU-R: WRC-07 Decisions on IMT Spectrum Allocation and

Digital Dividend - e.g., the 790 862 MHz band

ITU-R: WRC-12, 23 Jan~17 Feb 2012, Geneva

e.g., Agenda item 1.17

consider results of sharing studies between the mobile and

other services in 790-862 MHz in Regions 1 and 3,

ensure protection of services to which this band is allocated,

and take appropriate action;

ITU activities for digital broadcasting (2)

ITU-D: Study Group (e.g., Question 11-3/2: : Examination of

terrestrial digital sound and television broadcasting technologies

and systems, interoperability of digital terrestrial systems with
existing analogue networks, and strategies and methods of
migration from analogue terrestrial techniques to digital
techniques http://www.itu.int/net3/ITU-D/stg/rgqlist.aspx?rgq=D10RGQ11.3.2&stg=2

ITU-D: Development of Software for spectrum management

Compatibility analysis in the GE 06 Frequency bands

Spectrum Management Systems for Developing Countries

(SMS4DC)

ITU-D: Programs & Initiatives approved by WTDC-2010

ITU-D: Regional & National Projects on digital

broadcasting

e.g.

e.g. Project in Africa

Scope

Guidelines on
Transition from analogue to Digital Terrestrial
Television Broadcasting (DTTB)
Introduction of Mobile Television Broadcasting
(MTV)
Identification of
The policy, economic, and technology choices
The potential impact of DTTB and MTV
introduction
Providing many practical examples and
references to documents for additional or more
detailed information

To assist the African countries in making

their own roadmap to shift smoothly
Objective
from analogue to DTTB and MTV

e.g., Project in Asia and the Pacific

Regional Project on Digital Broadcasting
was developed and funded jointly by ITU
and KCC/R.O.Korea: e.g.,

Revision
For/in
ASIA
PACIFIC

Updated Guidelines and added a new

chapter on archives migration to reflect
the different ITU rules and requirements
in Region 3: i.e., Asia and the Pacific
Conducted survey to identify needs and
selected 5 pilot countries to develop the
migration roadmap models for Asia-Pacific

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WEMF V, Accra, Ghana

16 November 2011
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ITU Resources (Sample)

Version for AsiaPacific Members

Coming soon
http://www.itu.int/pub/D-HDBGUIDELINES.01-2010

http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itur/opb/rep/R-REP-BT.2140-2-2010PDF-E.pdf

http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itud/opb/stg/D-STG-SG02.11.2-2010PDF-E.pdf

ITU Activities in Asia-Pacific

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Activities on Digital Broadcasting

in Asia and the Pacific

ITU WTDC-2010 adopted Asia-Pacific Regional Initiative on

Digital Broadcasting
ITU carries out its activities in partnership with members and
other regional organisations (e.g., ABU and AIBD)
ITU Asia-Pacific Centre of Excellence with AIBD on
broadcasting for on-going capacity building.
ITU and Korea Communications Commission (KCC) are
implementing a project to assist countries in making their own
roadmap for smooth transition from analog to digital terrestrial
TV and mobile TV: e.g.,
Assistances in developing roadmaps on Digital Terrestrial
Television Roadmap for Cambodia, Mongolia, Nepal, Sri
Lanka, & Tonga;
Regional Training and Workshop on digital terrestrial
television broadcasting, 27 Feb 2 March 2012, Bangkok,
Thailand.
Assistance planned in 2012 for Lao PDR, Indonesia, Micronesia
Maldives, Afghanistan, others
ABU-AIBD-ITU Workshop Digital Broadcasting: Opportunities,
Business and Challenges, 26-28 May 2012, Bangkok, Thailand

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1.ITU Asia-Pacific Regional Initiatives (2011-2014)

Overview & Objectives
ASP RI 1

Unique ICT Needs LDCs,

SIDSs and Landlocked
Developing Countries

To provide special assistance to LDCs, SIDS and

landlocked developing countries in order to meet
their priority ICT requirements.

ASP RI 2

Emergency
Telecommunications

To provide assistance to Member States at all phases

of disaster management, i.e. disaster preparedness
including early warning, disaster response/relief and
rehabilitation of telecommunication networks.

ASP RI 3

Digital Broadcasting

To assist ITU Member States in making a smooth

transition from analogue to digital broadcasting.

ASP RI 4

Broadband Access and

Uptake in Urban and Rural
Areas

To assist Member States in the development of

broadband access in urban and rural areas.

Telecommunications/ICT
Policy and Regulation in
the Asia-Pacific Region

To assist Member States in developing of appropriate

policy and regulatory frameworks, enhancing skills,
increasing information sharing and strengthening
regulatory cooperation. .

ASP RI 5

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1. ITU Asia-Pacific Regional Projects

(2012-2014)
Title

Beneficiary Countries

Donors/
Partners

ITU/DBCDE Project for Asia-Pacific Regional

Initiatives Policy and Regulations

Asia-Pacific countries

DBCDE,
Member
States

ITU/KCC Project on Wireless Broadband

Master Plan

Asia-Pacific countries

KCC

ITU/KCC Project on Roadmap for Transition

Asia-Pacific countries:
to Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting Cambodia, Mongolia, Tonga, Nepal,
and Mobile Television in Asia and the Pacific Sri Lanka + any interested ones etc.

KCC

Connect A School, Connect A Community

Sri Lanka

TRCSL

ITU/NBTC Project on ICT Applications for

Rural Communities

Thailand and Asia-Pacific countries

NBTC,
Member
States

ITU/NBTC Project on Licensee Monitoring

and Compliance Framework

Thailand

NBTC

Thailand and Asia-Pacific countries

NBTC

ITU/NBTC Project on Human Capacity

Building

2. ITU Asia-Pacific Centres of Excellence

Specialized training opportunities at low or no fees
2011

Asia-Pacific
Spectrum Management
(Ministry of ICT, Iran
/ TCI, Iran)

11 Trainings/
Workshops,
3 Online
Trainings,

Policy & Regulation

Pakistan Telecommunication
Authority

Technology Awareness
Pusan National University
Rep. of Korea

Business Management
Ministry of ICT, Thailand

Broadcasting
Asia Pacific Institute
for Broadcasting
Development

Over 500
trainees,
2 additional
Nodes

Rural ICT Development

Universiti Utara Malaysia

ICT APPLICATIONS
Vietnam

CYBERSECURITY
IMPACT
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2. ITU Asia-Pacific Centres of Excellence Trainings

(2012)
Number Training Workshops

1
2
3
4

NGN Business Planning

Converged IP Network Technologies
Transition to Digital Terrestrial TV Broadbcasting
Regulating Value Added Services

Dates

Node

17-20 January

MICT - Thailand

Partners

Venue

15-17 Feb

PNU

27 Feb - 1 March

AIBD

April

PTA

Bangkok,Thailand

PTA

Malaysia

Thailand
TRAI
NBTC

New Delhi, India

Thailand

Complying with Security Conditions and Procedures in Telecom

Services
Strategic Telecommunication Management for Pacific Islands

6
7
8
9
10
11

Countries

16-18 April

MICT, Thailand ,

PITA

Norfolk Islands, Australia

April

NAv6

Penang, Malaysia

8-11 May

UUM
PTA

Spectrum Management

28-31 May

MICT
Iran /
MICT,
Thailand

Digital Broadcasting: Opportunities, Business and Challenges

26-28 May

AIBD

June

MIC/Viettel, UUM

TRAI / BSNL

Vietnam

12
13
14
15

IPv6 Network Migration Strategy for Telecom Service Provider

23 - 27 July

MICT,
Thailand
PNU
/ MICT
Thailand

APNIC

Bangkok, Thailand

Wireless Broadband Network Planning

14-17 August

/ MICT Iran

SecurityCore

27-30 August

IMPACT

NAv6

Malaysia

September /October

PNU

TRAI

Rep of Korea / India

16
17

Developing Creative Content for Rural Community"

24-26 September

UUM

AIBD

Malaysia

November

MIC/Viettel

Certified Network Engineer in IPv6

International Mobile Roaming

Applications on Cloud Computing

Broadband Quality: Technical Standards and Measurements

New Value Chain in Mobile Application Services

Number Online Training Courses

APT
[NBTC]
Bangkok, Thailand

Thailand

Vietnam

Dates

Node

Venue

DTTB Technologies

30 January - 9 March

AIBD

ITU Academy

Consumer Protection from UCE, Spamming

February

PTA

ITU Academy

Digital Media Broadcasting Technologies

1 October - 11 November

AIBD

ITU Academy

Universal Access to Broadband

5 November - 16 December

UUM

ITU Academy

3. Cambodia: Roadmap Report

The Cambodia television market is characterized by a great number

of national TV services and a wide choice of TV platforms (analogue
and digital terrestrial, analogue and digital cable, Internet Protocol
Television (IPTV) and satellite TV).

The National Roadmap Team (NRT) has the ambition to switch-off all
analogue terrestrial television services by the end of 2015 at the
earliest (or 2018 as possibly the latest) and carry out to : e.g.,

Get the roadmap report approved;

Acquire a mandate to plan and manage the analogue switchoff process in accordance to the phases of the roadmap;

Prepare and take decisions to determine the scope and

duration of the roadmap planning;

Form a Project Management office (PMO) and start drafting an

initial detailed ASO planning and determine the progress
reporting procedures and structures.
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3. Mongolia: Roadmap Report

Television in Ulaanbaatar is provided by the government funded

national independent public broadcaster (Mongolian National
Broadcaster MNB) , and 15 private television broadcasters.

The Mongolia government has made a strong commitment to

complete migration and analogue switch off by 30 June 2014.

The government decision sets out four primary objectives for the
migration project: e.g.,

To create the legal environment

To select the appropriate technology standards

To establish a migration framework setting out the transition

plan for the country

To carry out the training and communication activities

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3. Tonga: Roadmap Report

The analogue free-to-air (FTA) television broadcasting

industry for Tonga comprises two broadcasters and three
channels. Tonga Broadcasting Commission (TBC), the public
broadcaster, dominates with two channels.

The cabinet has recently approved the Roadmap assisted by

ITU and move forward the Analogue Switch-Off to 15 June
2014 (a year earlier than original plan).

Analogue switch-off can have a substantial impact upon

national communities. In many countries, specific
enactments of parliament facilitate in law the right of
government to declare an analogue switch-off date with all
associated policy ramifications.
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3. Nepal: Roadmap Report

Nepal Television, which was formed in 1985 as the state

owned broadcaster, has 19 transmitting stations and 3
transmitters owned by private operator are also in
operation.

The Digital Switch Over (DSO) policy developed by the NRT is

to have five phases for a smooth change over to digital
broadcasting.

DSO or ASO has been spread over six years, while the final
Analog Switch Off for Nepal is expected to be December
2017.

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3. Sri Lanka: Roadmap Report

The Sri Lanka TV market, with an estimated 3.5 million TV

households, is mainly a terrestrial TV FTA market with a very high
number of analogue terrestrial TV programme services (23). There is
a wide choice of TV delivery platforms; in addition to analogue
terrestrial TV, also digital TV satellite, analogue and digital cable TV,
IPTV.
One of the policy directives introduces a new category of network
operator to provide the service of delivering the content of the
broadcasters to the viewers. The new category is termed Digital
Broadcast Network Operators (DBNO).
The milestones are based on the timelines originally stated in the
Report submitted to Ministry of Mass Media and Information: e.g.,
End 2011 to mid 2012: Deployment of DTTB pilot transmission
services in Northern Province and Western Province;
Mid 2014: Deployment of DTTB services from eight DTT principal
stations;
End 2015: Analogue shut off in Western
End 2017: Complete Analogue Switch-Off
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4. ITU Asia-Pacific Direct Country Actions

(2012)
Actions

Beneficiary Countries

Donors/
Partners

Iran, Indonesia, Pakistan,

Philippines, Bhutan, PNG

DBCDE

Expert assistance in Spectrum Management and

Policy

PNG, Cambodia, Myanmar,

Lao PDR

DBCDE

Roadmap on migration to "Digital Broadcasting"

Lao PDR, Indonesia, FSM,

Maldives, Afghanistan

DBCDE

National Broadband Master Plan

Review/Development of Cybersecurity Strategy Maldives, Lao PDR, Myanmar,

and Policy
Indonesia, Timor Leste
Impact Study of the Common Services Centre
Scheme
Assistance in Enacting Telecom Laws

Development/Review of Universal Service

Policy and Fund
ICT accessibility for Persons with Disabilities
ITU/PITA capacity building on strategic
management for telecommunication

ASEAN/
IMPACT

India/South Asia
Cambodia

DBCDE

Myanmar, Philippines, ASEAN

ASEAN

Afghanistan, Nepal
Pacific Islands Countries

PITA

5. ITU Asia-Pacific Main Events (2012)

Events

Date

Venue

Partners

20-22 Feb

Thailand

MICT/NBTC

27 Feb
2 Mar

Thailand

NBTC

28-30 Mar

Ukraine

ASP/CIS

2-6 April

India

TRAI/DOT

ITU Training on Satellite Filing & Launching

[24-27 Apr]

Thailand

MICT

ITU Asia-Pacific Development Forum

[16-18 May]

Thailand

BST/TSB/BR

17 May

Thailand

APT

Thailand

ABU/AIBD

5-7 Jun

Fiji

CTO/PITA/SPC

ITU-MIIT Policy & Regulatory Seminar

[Aug]

China

MIIT

ITU-IDA Training on Policy and Regulations

[Sep]

Singapore

IDA

4W Sep

Thailand

MICT

10-11 Oct

R.O.Korea

ABU

TBD

Malaysia

MCMC

ITU Workshop on Emergency Communications and Information

Management

ITU Training and Workshop on Transition from Analog to

Digital Terrestrial TV Broadcasting
ITU Cross Regional Forum on Combating Cybercrime

ITU-TRAI ITP-2012 & Regulators' Roundtable

WTISD 2012

AIBD-ITU-ABU Digital Broadcasting: 26-28 May

Opportunities, Business and Challenges
ITU Pacific Forum on Broadband Access and Applications

ITU 10th World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Meeting (WTIM)

2012

ITU/ABU Forum on Gender Inclusion in ICT/Broadcasting

Regional Forum on ICT applications & security

ITU Major Global Events (2012)

Events

Radiocommunication Assembly

World Radiocommunication
Conference
World TELECOM
World Telecommunication
Standardization Assembly

World Conference on International

Telecommunications

Date

Venue

16-20 Jan
2012

Geneva

23 Jan
17 Feb

Geneva

Oct

Dubai

20-29 Nov

Dubai

3-14 Dec

Dubai

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ITU : http://www.itu.int
ITU Asia Pacific : http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/asp/CMS/index.asp

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