ARLA/CLUSTER: Dividendo Digital vai chegar até aos 700 MHz.

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

A passagem da televisão analógica à televisão digital até 2012, apesar
de alguns Estado-Membros da União Europeia preverem tal passagem para
uma data posterior, vai libertar um conjunto de radiofrequências no
espectro radioeléctrico com uma dimensão sem precedentes. Este
conjunto de frequências libertadas é conhecido como o «dividendo
digital». Em função da gama de frequências, o espectro radioeléctrico
divide-se em faixas e subfaixas de frequências. Estas frequências
libertadas vão, por exemplo, permitir a transmissão de comunicações
móveis e de comunicações fixas sem fios de elevadissimo débito.

WRC-12 paves way for 2nd Digital Dividend

The CEPT Electronic Communcations Committee website indicates that
further TV spectrum may be released for a '2nd Digital Dividend'.

The press release says:
Digital Dividend - an ’extended digital dividend’ at 700 MHz, with
technical conditions to be agreed at WRC 2015.

Many Arab and African countries at WRC-12 unexpectedly requested an
immediate extended digital dividend at 700 MHz. The CEPT delegation
considered this request and, together with other regional
organisations, reached a compromise on the issue in order to complete
all necessary studies for WRC-15.

CEPT believes that raising the status of mobile radio services in
another significant part of spectrum below 1 GHz will widen its
options in Europe.

CEPT has to deal not only with the growing appetite for mobile
broadband services, but also with the pressing issues of rural access
to broadband. It will now evaluate how best to enable national
regulators and operators, and the end-user, to achieve these
objectives efficiently, given the continued importance of terrestrial
television in many countries, the development of intelligent
technologies such as cognitive radio, and the varied situations across
Europe.

The ECC will publish a special edition of its Newsletter later this
week, reflecting on the WRC’s main outcomes as they affect the CEPT
area, which covers 48 member countries. You can subscribe to the ECC
Newsletter from the website’s ECC Newsletters page
http://www.cept.org/ecc/about-ecc/ecc-newsletters

Full CEPT Electronic Communcations Committee press release
http://www.cept.org/ecc/groups/ecc/page/wrc-12-modernises-worldwide-framework-for-spectrum-use-in-europe