Digital terrestrial TV and Spectrum arrangement in Viet Nam 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

TV digitization in Viet Nam Benefits of TV digitization for Broadcasters Better quality of video and audio More channels, more services (Mobile reception, mobileTV, 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...)

GDP Growth Impact of telecommunications: Highest Impact from Broadband The Economics Benefit of Broadband 1.38 High – Income Countries 1.21 1.12 Low – Income Countries 0.81 0.77 0.73 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 Unpublished Paper.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 DTV 2011 12/2014 26 next provinces ATV - DTV DTV 2013 12/2016 18 next provinces ATV - DTV DTV 2015 12/2018 12/2020 15 next provinces ATV - DTV DTV 2017

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 now VTC is operating network with 2 MUX using MPEG-2 compression standard delivering more than 20 TV program channels

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-S2 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 Allotment of frequency 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

More broadband services and More TV services The Digital dividend 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 Digital dividend More broadband services and More TV services Existing analogue channels Spectrum Existing program channels Analogue transmission Digital transmission Time A – D Transition period 2020

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

Additional allocations for IMT in WRC-07 450-470 MHz 790-960 MHz 2300-2400 MHz 3400-3600 MHz in 81 countries Footnote 5.317A 450-470 MHz 698-960 MHz 2300-2400 MHz 3400-3600 MHz 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 WP5D (1) ITU-R Recommendation M.1036 : Frequency arrangements for IMT

Results from WP5D (2) ITU-R Recommendation M.1036 : Frequency arrangements for IMT

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

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

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

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

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