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1. ITU-AIBD-ABU REGIONAL WORKSHOP
STRENGTHENING DIGITAL BROADCASTING EXPERIENCE
HA NOI, VIETNAM, 22-23 MAY 2011
Digital terrestrial TV and Spectrum
arrangement in Viet Nam
Mr. Doan Quang Hoan
General Director of Authority of Radio Frequency Management

2. Content
 Overview on Viet Nam TV broadcasting
 TV digitization in Viet Nam
 Spectrum arrangement for DTV
 The Digital Dividend
 Summary

3. Overview on Viet Nam TV broadcasting
Viet Nam has 66 TV broadcasters:
- 3 nationwide TV broadcasters
- 63 local TV broadcasters
- 109 TV free-to-air program channels
So many local broadcasters! So many program channels!
More difficult to allocate the available frequency channels
to deploy DTV services

4. Overview on Viet Nam TV broadcasting
Market share of platform
CATV 1.56%
Analog terrestrial TV 76.5%
Digital terrestrial TV 12.5%
Sattelite DTH

5. TV digitization in Viet Nam
1. Benefits of TV digitization for Broadcasters
- Better quality of video and audio
- More channels, more services (Mobile reception,
mobileTV, HDTV, interactivity, data services)
- Local TV broadcasters may have larger service coverage
- DTV transmitter’s ERP requirement is lower
- DTV gives a chance to set up SFN

6. TV digitization in Viet Nam
2. Benefits of TV digitization for telecommunications
- Spectrum efficiency is high
- Digital Dividend. That is a big chance to deploy more
radio broadband services;
- The more Broadband services, the more multimedia
provided (such as Live TV channels, Interactive
TV, Time-shifted TV, Video on demand...)

7. The Economics Benefit of Broadband
High – Income Countries 1.38
1.21
Low – Income Countries 1.12
0.81 0.77
0.73
0.6
0.43
Fixed- Telephony Imobile - Telephony Internet Broadband
GDP Growth Impact of telecommunications:
Highest Impact from Broadband
GDP percentage point increase due to 10 percent increase in penetration
Qiang. Christine Z. 2009. “Telecommunications and Economics Growth.” Unpublished 6 Booz & Company, Digital Highways: The Role of Government i 21 st-Centry
Paper. World Bank, Washington, D.C. Infrastructure, 2009, p.5

8. TV digitization in Viet Nam
- DVB-T standard have been adopted by VTV since 2001
- VTC had launched DVB-T test project since 2002
- 2005 DVB-T was adopted to deploy nationwide
- Planning on radio television broadcasting transmission
to 2020 was adopted by Prime Minister in 2009;
- Drafted Digitization Project on terrestrial TV was
submitted to Prime Minister for approval
- Radio law and Telecommunications law

9. TV digitization in Viet Nam
Drafted Digitization Project on terrestrial:
- The final target of DTV roadmap: 95% of
population served by digital TV.
- Transmission standard: DVB-T and its next
versions;
- Compression standard: MPEG-2, MPEG-4 part
10/ H.264 (after 2014: MPEG-4 part 10 /H.264 is
mandatory)
- Analog switch off has been scheduled from 2015
to the end of 2020 (region by region)

10. TV digitization in Viet Nam
DTV roadmap
5 central cities
ATV - DTV DTV
2011 12/2014
26 next provinces ATV - DTV DTV
2013 12/2016
18 next provinces ATV - DTV DTV
2015
12/2018 12/2020
15 next provinces ATV - DTV DTV
2017

11. TV digitization in Viet Nam
* Terrestrial DTV
- VTC has launched DTV services since 2006,
+2 MUX using MPEG-2 compression standard,
+ more than 20 TV program channels;
- AVG has a trial of DTV SFNs with 3 MUX using MPEG-
4 compression standard in Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh
City;
- More than 2 million set-top-box have been sold out
to market

12. TV digitalization in Viet Nam
* Mobile TV
- DVB-H was tested by VTC corporation in 2006,
- T-DMB trial project has been broadcasted by VTV
in Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh city
* DTH
- VTV launched DTH using DVB-S standard since 2004
- VTC launched DTH using DVB-S2 standard since 2009

13. Spectrum arrangement for
terrestrial TV
1. Multiplex and network planning
- 3 nationwide broadcasting transmission operators
with 7 DTV Multiplexes
- 5 – 7 DTV MUX for existing local ATV (multiplex by
regional areas)

14. Spectrum arrangement for
terrestrial TV
2. Frequency channel allotment for DTV
- to broadcast 2 MUX for VTV and 2 MUX for VTC with
nationwide coverage using MFN;
- to broadcast 3 MUX for third nationwide operator
using SFN providing Pay TV services;
- to broadcast 1 MUX for each regional networks
delivering existing local TV channels

15. Spectrum arrangement for
terrestrial TV
3. Frequency bands
- VHF band III: 174 – 230 MHz
- UHF band:
 Before 12/2009 : 470 – 806 MHz
 After 12/2009: 470 – 790 MHz
4. Draft of VHF band plan
- To be planned for DTV, Digital radio, Mobile TV
- Band III VHF (174-206) MHz for DVB-T/T-DMB
- Band III VHF (206-230) MHz for T-DMB/T-DAB

16. Spectrum arrangement for
terrestrial TV
5. Draft of UHF band plan
- Mainly for DTV implementation
- UHF (470-694 MHz) for DTV Long-term usage
- UHF (694-790 MHz) for DTV/ATV temporary
usage and to be freed up to develop other radio
services (Digital Dividend)
- After 12/2020 UHF band 694 – 790 MHz is going
to be freed up to launch other radio broadband
services

17. The Digital dividend
• Digital Dividend is the spectrum made available over and
above that required to accommodate the existing analogue
television services in a digital form in VHF and UHF
More broadband
Digital services and More
Spectrum
Existing dividend TV services
analogue
channels
Existing
program
channels
Analogue Digital Time
A – D Transition period
transmission transmission
2020

18. Who can use the Dividend?
• Additional and improved terrestrial
broadcasting services:
 High quality digital TV
 More spectrum & power efficiency
• Multimedia Mobile broadcasting services:
 H
HANDHELD
• Mobile communication systems:


19. Additional allocations for IMT in WRC-07
450-470 MHz
790-960 MHz
2300-2400 MHz
3400-3600 MHz in 81 countries
450-470 MHz
698-960 MHz 450-470 MHz
2300-2400 MHz 790-960 MHz (698-960 MHz in 9
3400-3600 MHz countries: Bangladesh, China, Korea
(Rep. of), India, Japan, New
Zealand, Papua New
Guinea, Philippines and Singapore)
2300-2400 MHz
3400-3600 MHz in 8 countries
Footnote 5.317A
(China, Korea, Japan, India,..)
19

20. Results from WP5D (1)
ITU-R Recommendation M.1036 : Frequency arrangements for IMT

21. Results from WP5D (2)
ITU-R Recommendation M.1036 : Frequency arrangements for IMT

22. AWF COMMON VIEW (from AWF 9 th)
FDD Arrangement
10 MHz
5 3
MHz centre gap MHz
DTTV PPDR/LMR
694 698 45 MHz 45 MHz 806
MHz MHz MHz
TDD Arrangement
DTTV PPDR/LMR
694 698 806
MHz MHz MHz

23. Spectrum Allocation for broadcasting in Vietnam
VHF UHF
174 230 Frequency (MHz) 470 610 790 806
Total: 392 MHz

24. Spectrum to be Refarmed
• No new TV Transmiter and TV services in sub band
790 – 806 MHz.
VHF UHF
174 230 Frequency (MHz) 470 610 790 806

25. Spectrum to be Refarmed
• After 2020: Digital Dividend of 112 MHz (694-806 MHz)
and the band need to be refarmed.
VHF UHF
To be
refarmed
174 230 Frequency (MHz) 470 610 694 806
• DTV services should be used the bands below 694 MHz

26. Thank you for
your attention