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24/08/2012
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The announcement yesterday of Communications Minister Paulo Bernardo, you want to make the auction sale of the frequencies of 700 MHz in the second half of 2013, coupled with the strategy is already approved by the government to "clean up" this track, occupied by signals Analog TV, in major cities by 2016. At the same time, the new planning of digital TV, on the one hand accelerates the analog blackout in the major centers, also postpones until after 2020, in the small towns, the shutdown of analog TV signals.
As the presentation of Flavio Lenz, advisor of the Telecommunications MiniCom in the SET event in Sao Paulo, since no consensus in the government's need for quick cleaning of the 700 MHz band, which will be occupied by mobile broadband in large urban centers. 1062 will be exact cities where analog TVs will need to be "turned off" by passing to transmit only digital signals to make room for broadband.
These cities congregate 118 million Brazilian households and 5.5 million members of the social program Bolsa Familia, according to a study by the Ministry of Communications.
For the remaining 4,500 municipalities, where the cost of deployment of digital TV is at least three times, the deadline for the shutdown of analog TV will be much diluted in time, may not exceed the year 2020. And 4G broadband will not arrive in cities? The ministry sees no problem because these cities, channels 52-69, which are just on the 700 MHz band are not occupied by TVs, which can then be used for mobile broadband.
Changes
The effort to digitize signals from the TV, even with the decision to not meet the schedule prepared during the Lula government in major urban centers, is still very large. According to projections from Lenz, confirming the anticipated process for 2015, when it will begin to test pilot in some Brazilian cities, which will be exchanged about five thousand TV transmitters in these large cities.
The experience of Japan, which had last July as the deadline for the switch off of analogue TV was analyzed by MiniCom along with U.S. markets, Korean, French, Spanish and Portuguese. In Japan, for example, problems were found with the shadow areas of the cities and it was proved that, to get the last 1% scanning is much more expensive than any initial installation phase. Moreover, Japan has mounted a strong aid scheme to support population migration, with the use of call centers and teams going from house to house.
In Brazil, the idea of diluting the time the switch off of analogue TV is grounded in the fact that the relay maiora small towns are bankrolled by municipalities, which have no captions to make this trade. And therefore, justifies the government, after this initial big push in four years, the exchange of almost 7000 other transmitters would be done more slowly and more palatable to the budgets.
Radiodifuosores
Broadcasters are still doing studies commissioned by MiniCom about the problems that could occur with this change. But also try to accelerate digitization. Globo Organizations, for example, arriving in 2013 with 70% of its network scans. The remaining 30% is what is the big problem, inform company representatives.
Source: Telesíntese
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