Frequency Planning for Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) in South America

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In South America, the migration from analogue television to Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) is on-going without any international agreement for the frequency allocation in the region such as the Geneva 2006 regional agreement (GE06) for Europe. Furthermore, there are several DTT technologies on air. Most countries have adopted the Japanese-Brazilian standard ISDB-Tb (Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting–Brazilian version) but Colombia adopted the European standard DVB-T2 (Digital Video Broadcasting–Terrestrial Second Generation). Another characteristic is that the digital dividend band (700 MHz band in the Americas), which was used in many countries for the simulcast transition period, has been already allocated in many countries for mobile broadband (4G LTE) and hence it is not available. This paper reviews the frequency planning problem for DTT and presents a first proposal for a frequency allocation agreement in South America.

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