The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) wants to ensure spectru...
The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) wants to ensure spectrum, technical and regulatory protection for broadcasting reception, coverage and future growth, it said in preliminary views on World Radiocommunication Conference preparations. The conference will study sharing between incumbent broadcasting and…
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mobile services in case they're introduced in the 790 and 862 MHz band in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and former Soviet countries. The union may want to use the bands for boosting services, 3-DTV and applications such as wireless microphones. More studies will be required, the union said, referring to DVB T2, DVB-H, ISDB-T, MediaFlo and mobile services WiMAX and variants of International Mobile Telecommunications, which is commonly referred to as 3G or 4G. The ABU opposed using the band for cognitive radio systems, software defined radio and short- range devices in UHF broadcasting white spaces. “The ABU believes that studies and appropriate regulatory guidelines for such use are not mature at this time and will not be at least until the WRC-12.” The ABU urged “national regulators not to assign UHF bands below 806 MHz to new IMT services until the ITU-R studies are completed and necessary sharing conditions, criteria and protection margin for both broadcasting and mobile services are available to guide the regulators in their detailed national planning work.”