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Title: CCK Broadcasters Breakfast meeting Intercontinental Hotel, Nairobi, 19th December 2006


1
CCK / Broadcasters Breakfast meetingIntercontine
ntal Hotel, Nairobi, 19th December 2006
  • Results of RRC-06
  • S. K. Kibe
  • DIRECTOR/FREQUENCY SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT
  • COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION OF KENYA

2
Previous Plans
  • Previous broadcasting plans for the African
    Broadcasting Area
  • European Broadcasting area Stockholm 61
  • African Broadcasting area GE63
  • Band 1 48-68 MHz
  • Band 3 174-230 MHz
  • African Broadcasting area GE89
  • Band 1 48-68 MHz
  • Band 3 174-230 MHz
  • Bands 4/5 470-862 MHz

3
Drivers for a new plan
  • Demand for new plan driven by
  • Technological advancements
  • Advanced digital compression techniques
  • New television standards
  • Increasing customer demands.
  • Digital content availability (e.g. DVDs) and
    availability of other high quality service
    delivery alternatives, e.g. cable, direct-to-home
    TV (DTH), IPTV, etc
  • Lure of new features e.g. home theatre
    experience, interactivity
  • Constrains of spectrum
  • ever increasing number of broadcasters.
  • Spectrum extravagancy of analogue broadcasting

4
Need for a new plan (2)
  • Request by EU for ITU to convene Regional
    Radiocommunication Conference (RRC) for planning
    introduction of terrestrial digital TV in the
    European Broadcasting Area in the frequency bands
    174-230 MHz and 470-862 MHz.
  • Approval by ITU Council in 2004 to extend the
    conference to the African broadcasting area and
    neighbouring countries.

5
Planning Area
6
RRC Sessions
  • The new plan was done in in 2 sessions
  • 1st Session RRC-04 held in Geneva, 10-28 May
    2004
  • 2nd Session RRC-06 also held in Geneva, 15 May
    16 June 2006

7
1st session RRC-04
  • 1st Session RRC-04 held in Geneva, 10-28 May
    2004
  • Prepared Report to the 2nd session
  • Basis for the work of the second session of the
    RRC agenda and duration of the RRC-06 and two
    associated short conferences.
  • Specified form in which administrations should
    submit digital broadcasting requirements.
  • Spelt out inter-sessional activities and called
    for further studies

8
2nd session RRC-06
  • 2nd session RRC-06 held in Geneva, 15 May 16
    June 2006
  • Agenda
  • Regulatory and procedural aspects relating to the
    use of the bands 174 230 MHz and 470 862 MHz
    by broadcasting services and the sharing between
    broadcasting and other primary services
  • Relation between the RRC-06 agreement and the
    GE89 Agreement
  • Relation between the RRC-06 agreement and ST61
    Agreement

9
2nd session RRC-06 (2)
  • Objective to produce a plan for digital
    terrestrial broadcasting in the 174-230 MHz and
    470-862 MHz and for the planning area, which
    comprises parts of Region 1, including the
    territories of the Islamic Republic of Iran, but
    excluding the territory of Mongolia.
  • Attended by 782 delegates representing 93 of the
    120 Member States with territories in the
    planning area.

10
Kenya Delegation to RRC-06
  • Kenyas delegation comprised of
  • Ministry of Information Communication (MoIC)
  • Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK)
  • National Communication Secretariat (NCS) and
    Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC)
  • Media Owners Association (MOA) invited but unable
    to attend.

11
RRC-06 Working Methods
  • Planning software
  • Coordination and Negotiation Groups (CNGs).
  • Administrative declarations

12
Planning Software
  • Computer software developed by ITU for planning
    and compatibility analysis.
  • Software took into consideration administrative
    declarations
  • Constant upgrades of software released during RRC
    to incorporate evolving decisions.

13
CNGs
  • RRC established 6 CNGs
  • CNG 1 Europe and Eastern part of the Planning
    Area
  • CNG 2 Western/Central Africa
  • CNG 3 Eastern/Southern Africa
  • CNG 4 Red Sea area, area with extreme
    propagation
  • CNG 5 Mediterranean
  • Each CNG had its own Chair and Vice Chairs,
    Sub-CNGs within CNG, ie Eastern Africa, Southern
    Africa
  • Each CNG had a the ITU support of a planning
    expert and Computer facilities and meeting rooms

14
CNGs (2)
  • Individual Administrations responsible for
  • planning and preparation of its digital
    requirements, carry out local compatibility
    analysis using RRC-06 software
  • Validation and correction of errors
  • Submission of requirements data thro web based
    system
  • Negotiation and coordination with
    affected/affecting neighbours
  • Preparation, validation and submission of
    administrative declarations
  • Study of each iteration results and subsequent
    review of its requirements for next iteration
  • Absent Administrations ITU staff nominated to
    take care of their interests (coordination,
    requirements

15
Administrative declarations
  • Concept whereby requirements declared
    incompatible by software based on preset
    interference margin, are declared compatible by
    concerned administrations based on agreed factors
    (terrain, distance, etc)
  • Compatible requirements can share same channel
  • Administrative declarations had to be symmetrical
    to be acceptable
  • Concerned administrations had to examine results
    of each iteration, then negotiate with affected
    neighbour for every incompatible pair of
    requirements
  • Actions suppression of requirements, change of
    channel, reduction of ERP/antenna height,
    adjustment of radiation patterns

16
Output of RRC-06
  • The Plan for digital broadcasting (T-DAB) in the
    VHF band and DVB-T in both VHF and UHF frequency
    bands)
  • List of analogue TV stations entitled to
    protection during the transition period
  • List of assignments for other primary services
  • Procedures for modifying the Plan and the Lists
  • All of the regulatory and technical details for
    determining which other administrations are
    affected, and checking for conformity with the
    Agreement

17
Output of RRC-06 (2)
  • Some parts GE-89 revised and others abrogated
  • Plans for the bands III (174-230 MHz),
    IV(470-582 MHz) and V(582-862 MHz)
  • GE06D - Plan of digital assignments and
    allotments this Plan comprises two parts
  • Part 1, for digital broadcasting in Band III
    (174-230 MHz), with provisions for T-DAB and
    DVB-T
  • Part 2, for digital broadcasting in Bands IV
    and V (470-862 MHz), with provisions for DVB-T.
  • GE06A - Plan of analogue television assignments
  • GE06L - the list of assignments to other primary
    terrestrial services

18
Switchover
  • Analogue to digital Transition much more than a
    technical migration. Considering the role of TV
    and Radio in modern societies, that impact is not
    only economic but also social and political.
  • The transition will affect all segments in the
    broadcasting value-chain. All require technical
    upgrading to support digital broadcasts.
  • Content production,
  • transmission
  • reception.
  • The main challenge on the reception side
  • replacement or upgrading of the huge base of
    analogue receivers.
  • can be done with set-top-boxes connected to the
    analogue TV Set.

19
Transition Period
  • The Transition period started on 17 June 2006 at
    0001 hours UTC and shall end on 17 June 2015 at
    0001 hours UTC.
  • During the Transition period, assignments in the
    analogue Plan shall be protected.
  • Analogue systems shall have no rights whatsoever
    after the end of transition, and shall cease to
    apply in all countries party to RRC-06.
  • Migration expected to be completed in Europe by
    year 2012.

20
Future Broadcaster
  • The gradual availability of broadband
    infrastructure and convergence of services will
    eat into the broadcasting market segment.
  • Telcos offering IPTV
  • Fibre-To-The-Home (FTTH) by electricity
    infrastructure
  • There will be two categories of operators
  • Broadcaster content creation
  • Multiplex operators/ signal distributors
    infrastructure development
  • Maximum of three multiplex operators, KBC
    naturally one of the operators

21
Future Broadcaster (2)
  • Migration is good for the nation.
  • Digital dividends
  • Freeing additional spectrum
  • CCK cannot licence any more analogue TV
    broadcasters.
  • Continuous consultative process

22
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