MCMC: Request for proposal for digital terrestrial TV broadcasting out soon

Friday August 5, 2011

PETALING JAYA: The request for proposal (RFP) for digital terrestrial television broadcasting (DTTB) will be issued soon, said the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC).

However, the regulator did not say how much of the controversial 700MHz spectrum would be used by the broadcasters or the telecoms player in the digital era.

The “700MHz band is currently being used for broadcasting and the spectrum band for DTTB is 470MHz – 742MHz.”

The telecoms and broadcasting industry need the spectrum for their broadcasting needs. The telcos are becoming broadcasters by pushing TV contents to their users.

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