Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network won a large slice of new bandwidth in the FCC’s AWS-3 spectrum auction earlier this year. Dish paid a total of $13.3 billion for the rights. Now he is handing some of it back. Some of the allocated bandwidth was paid for through two Dish subsidiaries, Northstar Wireless and SNR Wireless […]

The commercial module of digital TV standards body DVB has been working on ‘Defining the Long Term Vision for Terrestrial Broadcast’, with a view to publishing its findings later in 2105. Graham Mills, Chair of the Commercial Module, noted that DTT is thriving in many countries, with DVB-T2 the leading standard, having been adopted around […]

A report from Juniper Research forecasts rapid adoption for 5G from 2025 onwards, with active connections representing a threefold increase from 2024 to reach 240 million by then. However, this will represent a very limited global reach, accounting for approximately 3 per cent of global mobile connections. Juniper found that the many advantages of 5G […]

A Geneva meeting last week of the world’s major international spectrum regulators seemed to indicate that today’s satellite transmissions in C-band are by no means likely to stay intact – at least for terrestrial transmissions – when the larger World Radio Telecommunications Conference (WRC) takes place in November. The Geneva meeting last week heard from […]

The World Broadcasting Union (WBU) has made a strong case for broadcasting’s existing spectrum usage to be left alone at the upcoming World Radio Congress (WRC-15). The WBU statement was issued on behalf of its various association members (ABU, ASBU, AUB, EUB, etc) and stated: “The use of radio-frequency spectrum by broadcasters remains the most […]

Trade body the GSMA – which represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide – has published a new report finding that terrestrial digital television broadcasting in the Arab States does not need an exclusive allocation of the UHF spectrum band (470-694MHz). The report, Terrestrial Broadcasting and Spectrum Use in the Arab States, developed by Plum […]

A far-sighted report from Juniper Research forecasts a healthy adoption for 5G, with service revenues set to exceed $65 billion (€59.8bn) by 2025, compared to just $100 million during its first year of commercial services in 2020. This figure would represent approximately 7 per cent of all operator-billed service revenues. Juniper notes that while the […]

France’s broadcast regulator the Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA) has issued a new call for bids to offer nationwide services in HD on the country’s DTT platform. The move is part of the evolution of France’s DTT platform announced in April 2016 by the Government, following the transfer of the 700 MHz frequency band to […]