Philippines broadcast regulator, National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), has invited the broadcasting industry for a public hearing on September 12 – to discuss about the migration plans to digital terrestrial television. The commission has released the draft implementing rules and regulations (IRR) for the transmission shift which is based on the Japanese standard.
The draft IRR includes channel planning, capital spending, frequency allocation and the specific steps that the industry must undertake during the shift from analogue broadcast service to digital, specifically the Integrated Service Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (ISDB-T) standard of Japan. The regulator has said that it will assign a bandwidth of six megahertz to each authorized digital TV operator per service area.
“Applicants intending to provide digital TV services must have a minimum paid-up capitalization of PHP 50 million (USD 1.14 million) for the first service area and an additional subscribed capital of PHP 20 million (USD 459,982) for each additional service area,” said the NTC in the draft.
“An applicant must also prove that it has the technical capability to install, operate and maintain the proposed DTTB network. A duly enfranchised entity with no existing authorization to provide analogue TV service desiring to provide DTTB service shall file the requisite petition for each service area in which it intends to provide DTTB service,” added the draft.
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