By philsandberg on Apr 12, 2013 in Australia, RF, Spectrum | Comments Off
Syntec International has launched the Frequency Locator app, designed to provide guidance to users of wireless microphones and associated systems in Australia during the restacking of frequencies being carried out by the Australian Government as part of the Digital Dividend initiative.The Frequency Locator is a simple to use application that can find available frequencies for [...]
By philsandberg on Oct 31, 2011 in Acquisition, Awards, RF, Television | Comments Off
Shine Australia has installed five Boxx Meridian Zero-delay Wireless Camera Links supplied by G.D.B. International for use in Network Ten’s latest series of The Renovators, The Biggest Loser and MasterChef.On the set of The Renovators, the largest purpose-built television set in Australia, stands Nick Parker, Technical Manager at Shine Australia. “This literally is an Australian [...]
By philsandberg on Jun 14, 2011 in Indonesia, RF, Television | Comments Off
Thomson Broadcast has announced that Indosiar, one of Indonesia’s top three broadcasters, has ordered six new Thomson Inductive Output Tube (IOT) high-power transmission systems for its national television network. The new transmitters replace Indosiar’s existing Thomson transmitters after 17 years of continuous operation, and they will be deployed in Bandung, Makassar, Denpasar, Medan, Semarang, and [...]
By philsandberg on May 5, 2011 in Australia, RF, Spectrum | Comments Off
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has released two papers signalling its intention to develop a future spectrum strategy that unlocks significant spectrum for mobile broadband and makes the best use of current and future technologies.Towards 2020—Future spectrum requirements for mobile broadband, considers a broad range of issues intended to meet the longer term spectrum [...]
By philsandberg on May 2, 2011 in Australia, Broadband, RF, Spectrum | Comments Off
Australia’s Convergence Review Committee has released a framing paper for the Review and issued a call for submissions. The framing paper outlines the Committee’s initial thinking on a number of principles that could inform the Committee in its conduct of the review.Glen Boreham, the review Chair, said the Committee was interested in receiving feedback on [...]
By philsandberg on May 2, 2011 in Hong Kong, RF | Comments Off
OFTA, Hong Kong’s Office of the Telecommunications Authority, has published its Spectrum Release Plan for 2011/12 to 2013/14, along with a Table of Hong Kong Frequency Allocations. As part of the implementation of the Radio Spectrum Policy Framework announced by the then Commerce, Industry and Technology Bureau in April 2007, the Telecommunications Authority (TA) will [...]
By philsandberg on Apr 15, 2011 in New Zealand, RF, Television | Comments Off
Johnston Dick and Associates (JDA) have selected The Bridge Networks to supply Harris Maxiva UAX Transmitters as part of the DTT Extension announced by New Zealand’s Ministry of Culture and Heritage (MCH) on 4 February 2011. JDA will establish Freeview DTT Services in nine new regions as part of the MCH initiative, which will see [...]
By philsandberg on Oct 21, 2010 in Australia, Newsroom, RF | Comments Off
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has decided to re-plan part of the 2.5 GHz band to facilitate new uses such as wireless access services (WAS), while retaining parts of the band used by current licensees for electronic news gathering (ENG). A range of other bands will be made available to maintain ENG service delivery [...]
By philsandberg on Oct 11, 2010 in Australia, RF, Spectrum | Comments Off
The Australian Communications and Media Authority is implementing a number of measures to remove regulatory barriers to spectrum trading and leasing, and to provide better information to radiocommunications users.“The continual evolution of wireless technologies and the rapidly growing demand for spectrum make it critically important that spectrum markets work efficiently so Australia gets the greatest [...]
By philsandberg on Oct 6, 2010 in Australia, DTV, RF, Television | Comments Off
The Australian Communications and Media Authority will host a one-day tune-up in Sydney on 3 November 2010 as part of its digital dividend consultation process.The Digital Dividend Spectrum Tune-Up will be an opportunity for industry and government to discuss the issues related to reassigning the digital dividend spectrum (694-820 MHz) freed up from the switchover [...]
