[opendtv] CSA on French digital radio

http://www.csa.fr/upload/dossier/radio_numerique_26_mai_09_b.pdf

Looks like the French CSA is aiming to start digital radio broadcast,
initially in Paris, Marseille, and Nice, by the end of this year. And
they have selected T-DMB, not DAB and not DRM (and not IBOC either), as
their standard. Oddly enough, to me, they have chosen to deploy digital
radio in low UHF (Band III the Europeans call it) and L Band. Just as
the Brits have done with DAB.

I'm not sure why this possible (eventual) evacuation from the FM band.
Is it ideally suited for anything else, more than radio? I would think
that L Band, for sure, would be more easily blocked by buildings and
such, compared with the FM band? L Band seems much better suited to
cellular systems, I think.

Me, I would have picked DRM, and with it reused the existing AM and FM
radio bands. Or maybe this is a way to transmit digital radio at full
power right from the start, without necessarily ever having to give up
analog radio. Who knows.

Looks like digital radio, globally, will be as fragmented as DTV. And
even more so, within Europe.

Bert
 
 
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