That reminds me...

http://www.lowyat.net/2013/07/media-prima-...hannel-in-2014/

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Yes supposed to be January 1 15. Started in east cost panisular Malaysia.

Source: http://www.theedgemalaysia.com/index.php?o...07119&Itemid=79

MCMC to optimise 700MHz spectrum usage

KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) is looking at ways to optimise the use of the 700MHz spectrum band for Long-Term Evolution (LTE) services, said its chairman Datuk Sharil Tarmizi.

Spectrum is the range of radio frequencies that enables wireless communication.

“Spectrum is a finite resource. Once it’s finished, we can’t create more. But we can continuously optimise the use of the spectrum by utilising new technologies and improving spectrum modulation techniques,” he told The Edge Financial Daily in an interview yesterday.

Sharil cited the frequencies used by television broadcasters, where the current system of having one broadcast channel on one frequency can be consolidated to 12 to 15 standard definition (SD) broadcast channels on one frequency, thanks to the utilisation of new digital technology.

“The entire television space occupies the 470MHz to 742MHz frequencies. With digital TV coming onstream in the first quarter next year, this means that the frequencies used will be reduced to 470MHz to 698MHz.

“With that it will free up the 698 Mhz to 742 MHz spectrum, which can be allocated for LTE services. However, this can only happen after the analogue switch-off,” he said.

Earlier at a media briefing to unveil the Industry Performance Report 2013 yesterday, Sharil said the regulator will review the 900MHz and 1800MHz spectrums awarded to various mobile players in the country to strengthen their service quality.

“We are looking at variety of option including auction, ‘beauty contest’, allocation or any combination of that. We will only make the decision after consulting all players.

“Should we choose to implement spectrum refarming, the aim is to allow telcos to provide better and quality service to consumers,” he said. Spectrum refarming is the process of reclaiming assigned spectrum to reapportion it to applicants.

The revision is to address the network congestion issue faced by telecommunications companies (telcos) and prepare them to tap into other value-added services such as mobile TV.

On the building of some 1,000 new towers to improve and increase the reach into rural parts of Malaysia, Sharil said MCMC is in the process of finalising the first round of tenders.

“We’ve run the first tender for 400 towers and we’re finalising that. We’ve got two more rounds of 300 towers each to go, but these will be all over the country and mostly in rural areas,” he said.
Sharil: We are going to rebalance the spectrum of all mobile operators. Photo by Chu Juck Seng

“We’ve also employed a tender for an undersea cable system connecting Sabah, Sarawak and Peninsular Malaysia and also a tender for 1Malaysia Internet centres for underserved groups in the city ... and we hope to get at least half of these projects completed by the end of the year,” he added.

According to MCMC’s Industry Performance Report 2013, about 42% or 18 million out of the 43 million mobile subscribers are 3G users, resulting in intermittent service interruptions.

Sharil said one of the solutions to address this is to refarm the spectrum.

For instance, a telco can do a spectrum refarming on its 1800MHz spectrum to provide 3G or 4G services. As such, telcos will be able to ease the congestion in their networks by diverting it to other spectrums instead of relying on 2100MHz or 2.6GHz primarily used for 3G and 4G services.

Meanwhile, MCMC is planning to narrow the gap of spectrum awarded to the big players and small players in the mobile telecommunication industry.

“We are going to rebalance the spectrum of all mobile operators,” Sharil said, adding that this was due to mobile players getting different spectrum allocations from the government.

“In a meeting last year, we decided to award 100MHz out of 2.6GHz spectrum to telcos which have more than 10 million subscribers, while awarding 50MHz to smaller players whose subscriber base is between 3 million and 5 million,” he said.

“Hence, the first thing that we need to do is to rebalance the spectrum awarded to all players,” he said.

This article first appeared in The Edge Financial Daily, on September 12, 2014.

Basicly, all Digital and analogue TV channels signal is "sticked" from 470MHz to 698MHz come next year. 698 Mhz to 742 MHz is reserved and to be opened to LTE one once analogue tv shutdown is completed.

This post has been edited by Qash-M: Sep 13 2014, 11:47 PM

TV Programming are so outdated nowadays.

Cable TV, satellite TV, digital terrestrial TVs don't matter much anymore when you have fast fibre optic internet in your house like SG.

1Gbps can bring you any TV channel you want with cheap Android TV boxes.

Most intl news channels already stream live feeds in FULL HD from their own sites.

You want premium entertainment stuffs such as the latest anime or Asian dramas, just pay a 1-time annual fee and forget about monthly subscriptions.

http://www.kinibiz.com/story/corporate/108...consultant.html

P.S: Can someone who subscribe it post full details?

The govt will tighten their grip on free movies soon. Habis lah. This is it!!

But i have a feeling that they will form an umbrella body to shut down all of these soon including torrents. They r good in making money legally and also illegally. Monopoly and sedition is in force now.

I can't access the article too, but I found this one.


This post has been edited by leetan33: Sep 19 2014, 12:50 PM

Nice. Although i do hope they bring in some channels that people still would like to see after ditching Astro (ONE HD, KBS World, NHK, Animax and others)...

This post has been edited by Qash-M: Sep 19 2014, 05:54 PM

https://twitter.com/shamberong/status/505277182969524224

Honestly speaking, i would prefer all Media Prima channels tv logo to be B&W, transparent and smaller.

Oh wow, TV3 in HD?
Yes, I agree with you that the logo should be transparent or smaller.

Let's look at some of the HD snapshots from other countries. Most of the channels feature small logo.

I just buy sony LED TV bcos all series support DVB-T2 now ... haha

I was thinking the same, until i saw some Philips 32PHT5109S LED TV with 3 HDMI at about lower price than Sony KDL-32R420B with 2 HDMI one.

http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1220149

KUALA LUMPUR: The Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcast (DTTB) is expected to be completed and implemented by 2017.

Multimedia and Communications Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Shabery Cheek said the project, which switches analog broadcasting to digital, is at the stage of building and preparation of infrastructure.

Speaking at the Dewan Rakyat today, he said the tender to build the infrastructure has been issued, and work has been carried out in East Malaysia before proceeding to the north of the peninsula and Klang Valley.

"Once the infrastructure is completed up north and in East Malaysia, the ministry will carry out a transition exercise where both analog and digital broadcasting will be done at the same time," he said in response to an oral question by Jeff Ooi Chuan Aun (DAP-Jelutong).

Ooi, in a supplementary question, asked Ahmad Shabery why the ministry was late in implementing the digital broadcast, which was supposed to begin in 2012, adding that the ministry was behind schedule in the implementation.

Ahmad Shabery agreed with Ooi, but added that the ministry had faced similar problems like other neighbouring countries like Thailand and Indonesia in implementing the system.

"These countries took time to start their digital and close their analog broadcasting," he said.

anyone want the Tv tunner ?

Buy the one build-in with the LCD/LED TV is much easier, and less costly.

any cheapo tv tuner to stick into my pc?Tried to check pc part pricelist to see if got there but i dont think i found any.

http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1231352

KUALA LUMPUR: MYTV Broadcasting Sdn Bhd has signed a RM1.06 billion framework agreement with Telekom Malaysia Bhd ™ for the provision of infrastructure and network facilities for digital terrestrial television (DTT) services in Malaysia.

Under the framework agreement, TM will provide MYTV with DTT services for a period of 15 years with an annual contract value of RM70.47 million.

The deal will see TM providing MYTV with infrastructure and network services including terrestrial distribution network services, satellite distribution network services, broadcast contribution network services, station facilities and infrastructure services as well as operation and maintenance services.

The agreement also entails TM developing a terrestrial distribution network to connect MYTV's digital multimedia broadcasting hub to all 37 main transmitter sites, 10 regional hubs and two earth stations via a nationwide STM-1 ring network.

TM will also provide MYTV with the fibre broadcast network and system that will allow MYTV to deliver high quality picture and an improved overall quality of digital viewing experience.

"There are about 35 substations to be used for transmission towers, MYTV will rent from us. Besides infrastructure, we also provide operations and maintenance services," TM managing director Tan Sri Zamzamzairani Mohd Isa told reporters at the signing ceremony yesterday.

MYTV group CEO Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Yaacob said the DTT services will be available mid-2015 with an initial 30 channels in the first phase.

"We have identified at least for the next three years we will be spending slightly over RM1 billion to prepare the infrastructure. We are looking at various options for financing," he said, adding that there will be a number of gap filler towers that still need to be built.

On the cost of the set-top boxes (STB) required to enjoy the DTT services, he said it is finalising the price, which will be affordable and not burden the rakyat.

"We estimate total TV household about 6.8 million. On our commitment to the government, MYTV will give two million STBs to the needy folk. The rest we are in discussion with the government for the rest of the distribution. As far as the price is concerned, we hope to make some announcement by first or second quarter next year," said DTT deputy project director Mohamed Redzwan Yahya.

He said MYTV is at the tail end of tenders for its infrastructure packages and are in the midst of evaluation the tenders.

"We expect to make awards by end of the year. That should give us time to rollout and meet our commitments to the government by then," he said.

The DTT services will be rolled out in two phases. The first phase which will start in Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang by mid-2015 aims to cover 85% of the population while the second phase aims to target 98% of the population nationwide by mid-2016.

We need more action, not words. (inb4 it's delayed further)