In this instance, these bands have been reserved for digital terrestrial TV broadcasting and wireless microphones.
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The new licences, awarded for up to 12 years, are for digital terrestrial TV (DTT).
Ofcom's planned pilot will use the white spaces that exist between airwaves reserved for digital terrestrial TV broadcasting.
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New, more highbrow channels, whether from Sky Italia's satellite platform or digital terrestrial channels, are slowly fragmenting Mediaset's audience.
In Germany where 10% of the population watches digital terrestrial TV, less than 10 cases of interference have been reported.
Digital terrestrial is likely to act as a shop window for its pay-TV satellite service and drive more viewers towards BSkyB.
In March Mario Monti's government announced it would sell a set of digital terrestrial television frequencies for as much money as it could raise.
What is more "it's good news for Sky, because it makes the DTT (digital terrestrial) marketplace more coherent compared with ITV Digital", said WestLB analyst Simon Wallis.
The 700MHz frequency band, currently used by digital terrestrial television, will be opened up to mobile services by 2018 as part of a global plan to harmonise frequencies for mobile users.
While developed markets have not only introduced digital terrestrial and largely completed analog switch-off, a second generation of digital broadcast (DVB-T2) is now being adopted in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Top Up TV, which offers pay channels to Freeview customers through digital terrestrial, should be able to offer Sky Sports 1 and 2 for the first time as a result of the ruling.
Like many cellular technologies, mobile TV standards differ by region, forming an alphabet soup of acronyms: wireless technology company Qualcomm 's MediaFLO in the U.S., DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting for Handhelds) in Europe, T-DMB (Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcast) in Korea, and ISDB-T (Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting - Terrestrial) in Japan and Brazil.
Like many cellular technologies, mobile TV standards differ by region, forming an alphabet soup of acronyms: wireless technology company Qualcomm 's (nasdaq: QCOM - news - people ) MediaFLO in the U.S., DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting for Handhelds) in Europe, T-DMB (Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcast) in Korea, and ISDB-T (Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting - Terrestrial) in Japan and Brazil.
In Britain and Italy satellite also has to vie with attractive free digital-terrestrial television services.
B's satellite service and the digital-terrestrial offering of OnDigital, which have limited capacity and interactivity, should see Video Networks as a complementary product that can help them in their battle with cable.
"Single Segment" refers to terrestrial digital broadcasts intended solely for mobile devices such as PDAs and cellphones.
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In Japan, each of the 50 digital channels of terrestrial television in the UHF band is split into 13 segments.
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He has a passionate belief in the future of terrestrial digital television - strong enough to pitch himself against Rupert Murdoch and BSkyB with Ondigital.
Consumers can always buy cable or terrestrial digital boxes.
Panasonic showed off a system that can pipe terrestrial digital broadcasts into trains, coupled with a wireless system to allow commuters to hear a broadcast's audio via headsets without disturbing other passengers (hey, some of us like to work, read -- or sleep -- on the train).
This makes it possible to record approximately 12 hours of terrestrial digital TV broadcasts or approximately 8.6 hoursof BS digital TV broadcasts in DR mode (recorded with the image quality exactly as broadcast), or store other long-duration video content, all on a single disc, while preserving the same high-definition image quality of the original.
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Digital television in Britain terrestrial, cable and satellite together will offer around 50 channels.
The process, which will eventually affect all TV viewers in the UK, involves the conversion of the country's terrestrial television system to digital.
Improved sound is not necessarily a given, either, since existing terrestrial Nicam sound is already digital.
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Britain is currently the only country in the world to enable viewers to receive digital television through three different technologies: standard terrestrial television, cable and satellite.
While the law does not currently require the payment of performance royalties from over-the-air (terrestrial) radio stations to artists and record labels, it does require services offering streaming digital content online, like Pandora or Spotify, to make such royalty payments.
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