Digital Dividend Planning in the Republic of Serbia

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Digital Dividend Planning in the Republic of
Serbia

• Prof. Irini Reljin
• Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister
• MIFTT, Republic of Serbia

Regional Seminar for Europeon Transition to
Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting and
Digital Dividend in Europe
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Talk overview

• TV platforms in Serbia,
• Maximizing of the Digital Dividend,
• Frequency assignment of the DD bandwidth?
• FDD vs. TDD

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TV platforms in Serbia

• Coincidences (or not?)
• 42 of households
• are terrestrial,
• 41.5 of households
• are rural,
• 42 of households are on cable.

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Number of TV services broadcasted terrestrially
in Serbia
Territory Number of services
National coverage 5
Public services 42
Belgrade 6
Regional coverage 22
Local coverage 83
Total 122
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How to maximize the DD?

• MPEG-4, p.10 (H.264 AVC),
• DVB-T2,
• SFN on the allotment basis,
• Regional insertion of regional and local content.

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Estimation of the total capacity needed?
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Mobile electronic communications market

• Spectrum refarming needed (planned),
• Technology neutrality is planned for the very
  near future,
• LTE is going to be implemented,
• Mobile operators need more spectrum.

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From 5 of radio frequency spectrum - towards 5G
Terrestrial video broadcasting is going to be
limited to 21 - 48 UHF channels and few VHF
channels
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FDD vs. TDD Pros and Conts

1. Spectrum efficiency (benefit for governments),
2. Equipment available (less capex for operators),
3. Both 1. and 2. produce benefits for customers,
4. Implications for the 700MHz band duplex
   organization,
5. Once or twice (are we going to have new refarming
   in 5-10 years)?

It is crucial to harmonize the spectrum usage
(as well as the duplex type) in the closest
neighborhood
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• Irini Reljin
• irini.reljin_at_mtt.gov.rs