ITUAIBDABU REGIONAL WORKSHOP STRENGTHENING DIGITAL BROADCASTING EXPERIENCE HA

ITU-AIBD-ABU REGIONAL WORKSHOP STRENGTHENING DIGITAL BROADCASTING EXPERIENCE HA NOI, VIETNAM, 22 -23 MAY 2011 Digital terrestrial TV and Spectrum arrangement in Viet Nam Mr. Doan Quang Hoan General Director of Authority of Radio Frequency Management

Content § § § Overview on Viet Nam TV broadcasting TV digitization in Viet Nam Spectrum arrangement for DTV The Digital Dividend Summary

Overview on Viet Nam TV broadcasting Viet Nam has 66 TV broadcasters: - 3 nationwide TV broadcasters - 63 local TV broadcasters - 109 TV free-to-air program channels So many local broadcasters! So many program channels! More difficult to allocate the available frequency channels to deploy DTV services

Overview on Viet Nam TV broadcasting Market share of platform CATV 1. 56% Analog terrestrial TV 76. 5% Digital terrestrial TV 12. 5% Sattelite DTH

TV digitization in Viet Nam 1. Benefits of TV digitization for Broadcasters - Better quality of video and audio - More channels, more services (Mobile reception, mobile. TV, HDTV, interactivity, data services) - Local TV broadcasters may have larger service coverage - DTV transmitter’s ERP requirement is lower - DTV gives a chance to set up SFN

TV digitization in Viet Nam 2. Benefits of TV digitization for telecommunications - Spectrum efficiency is high - Digital Dividend. That is a big chance to deploy more radio broadband services; - The more Broadband services, the more multimedia provided (such as Live TV channels, Interactive TV, Time-shifted TV, Video on demand. . . )

The Economics Benefit of Broadband 1. 38 High – Income Countries 1. 12 Low – Income Countries 0. 73 0. 81 1. 21 0. 77 0. 6 0. 43 Fixed- Telephony Imobile - Telephony Internet Broadband GDP Growth Impact of telecommunications: Highest Impact from Broadband GDP percentage point increase due to 10 percent increase in penetration Qiang. Christine Z. 2009. “Telecommunications and Economics Growth. ” Unpublished Paper. World Bank, Washington, D. C. 6 Booz & Company, Digital Highways: The Role of Government i 21 st-Centry Infrastructure, 2009, p. 5

TV digitization in Viet Nam - DVB-T standard have been adopted by VTV since 2001 VTC had launched DVB-T test project since 2002 2005 DVB-T was adopted to deploy nationwide Planning on radio television broadcasting transmission to 2020 was adopted by Prime Minister in 2009; Drafted Digitization Project on terrestrial TV was submitted to Prime Minister for approval Radio law and Telecommunications law

TV digitization in Viet Nam Drafted Digitization Project on terrestrial: The final target of DTV roadmap: 95% of population served by digital TV. Transmission standard: DVB-T and its next versions; Compression standard: MPEG-2, MPEG-4 part 10/ H. 264 (after 2014: MPEG-4 part 10 /H. 264 is mandatory) Analog switch off has been scheduled from 2015 to the end of 2020 (region by region)

TV digitization in Viet Nam DTV roadmap 5 central cities ATV - DTV 2011 DTV 12/2014 26 next provinces ATV - DTV 2013 12/2016 18 next provinces DTV ATV - DTV 2015 12/2018 15 next provinces 2017 ATV - DTV 12/2020 DTV

TV digitization in Viet Nam * Terrestrial DTV - - - VTC has launched DTV services since 2006, +2 MUX using MPEG-2 compression standard, + more than 20 TV program channels; AVG has a trial of DTV SFNs with 3 MUX using MPEG 4 compression standard in Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh City; More than 2 million set-top-box have been sold out to market

TV digitalization in Viet Nam * Mobile TV - DVB-H was tested by VTC corporation in 2006, T-DMB trial project has been broadcasted by VTV in Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh city * DTH - VTV launched DTH using DVB-S standard since 2004 VTC launched DTH using DVB-S 2 standard since 2009

Spectrum arrangement for terrestrial TV 1. Multiplex and network planning - 3 nationwide broadcasting transmission operators with 7 DTV Multiplexes - 5 – 7 DTV MUX for existing local ATV (multiplex by regional areas)

Spectrum arrangement for terrestrial TV 2. Frequency channel allotment for DTV - to broadcast 2 MUX for VTV and 2 MUX for VTC with nationwide coverage using MFN; - to broadcast 3 MUX for third nationwide operator using SFN providing Pay TV services; - to broadcast 1 MUX for each regional networks delivering existing local TV channels

Spectrum arrangement for terrestrial TV 3. Frequency bands - VHF band III: 174 – 230 MHz - UHF band: § Before 12/2009 : 470 – 806 MHz § After 12/2009: 470 – 790 MHz 4. Draft of VHF band plan - To be planned for DTV, Digital radio, Mobile TV - Band III VHF (174 -206) MHz for DVB-T/T-DMB - Band III VHF (206 -230) MHz for T-DMB/T-DAB

Spectrum arrangement for terrestrial TV 5. Draft of UHF band plan - Mainly for DTV implementation - UHF (470 -694 MHz) for DTV Long-term usage - UHF (694 -790 MHz) for DTV/ATV temporary usage and to be freed up to develop other radio services (Digital Dividend) - After 12/2020 UHF band 694 – 790 MHz is going to be freed up to launch other radio broadband services

The Digital dividend Spectrum • Digital Dividend is the spectrum made available over and above that required to accommodate the existing analogue television services in a digital form in VHF and UHF More broadband Existing analogue channels Digital services and More dividend TV services Existing program channels Analogue transmission A – D Transition period 2020 Digital transmission Time

Who can use the Dividend? • Additional and improved terrestrial broadcasting services: v High quality digital TV v More spectrum & power efficiency • Multimedia Mobile broadcasting services: v H HANDHELD • Mobile communication systems: v

Additional allocations for IMT in WRC-07 450 -470 MHz 790 -960 MHz 2300 -2400 MHz 3400 -3600 MHz in 81 countries 450 -470 MHz 698 -960 MHz 2300 -2400 MHz 3400 -3600 MHz Footnote 5. 317 A 450 -470 MHz 790 -960 MHz (698 -960 MHz in 9 countries: Bangladesh, China, Korea (Rep. of), India, Japan, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines and Singapore) 2300 -2400 MHz 3400 -3600 MHz in 8 countries (China, Korea, Japan, India, . . ) 19

Results from WP 5 D (1) ITU-R Recommendation M. 1036 : Frequency arrangements for IMT

Results from WP 5 D (2) ITU-R Recommendation M. 1036 : Frequency arrangements for IMT

AWF COMMON VIEW (from AWF 9 ) th FDD Arrangement 10 MHz 5 MHz DTTV 694 698 MHz 3 MHz centre gap 45 MHz 806 MHz PPDR/LMR TDD Arrangement DTTV 694 698 MHz 806 MHz PPDR/LMR

Spectrum Allocation for broadcasting in Vietnam UHF VHF 174 230 Frequency (MHz) 470 610 Total: 392 MHz 790 806

Spectrum to be Refarmed • No new TV Transmiter and TV services in sub band 790 – 806 MHz. VHF 174 230 UHF Frequency (MHz) 470 610 Existing transmitters No new TV service 790 806

Spectrum to be Refarmed • After 2020: Digital Dividend of 112 MHz (694 -806 MHz) and the band need to be refarmed. VHF UHF To be refarmed 174 230 Frequency (MHz) 470 610 694 806 • DTV services should be used the bands below 694 MHz

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