• Final Acts of the Regional Radiocommunication Conference for planning of the digital terrestrial broadcasting service in parts of Regions 1 and 3, in the frequency bands 174-230 MHz and 470-862 MHz (RRC-06) Geneva, 15 May - 16 June 2006
    • TABLE OF CONTENTS
    • Preamble
    • REGIONAL AGREEMENT* – Relating to the planning of the digital terrestrial broadcasting service in Region 1 (parts of Region 1 situated to the west of meridian 170° E and to the north of parallel 40° S, except the territory of Mongolia) and in the Islamic Republic of Iran, in the frequency bands 174-230 MHz and 470-862 MHz
      • PREAMBLE
    • ARTICLES
      • ARTICLE 1 – Definitions
      • ARTICLE 2 – Execution of the Agreement
      • ARTICLE 3 – Annexes to the Agreement
      • ARTICLE 4 – Procedure for modifications to the Plans and procedure for coordination of other primary terrestrial services
        • 4.1 Modifications to the Plans
          • 4.1.2 Initiation of the modification procedure
          • 4.1.3 Request for inclusion in the agreement-seeking process
          • 4.1.4 Seeking agreement of the administrations which are considered to be affected and whose agreement has yet to be obtained
          • 4.1.5 Completion of the modification procedure
          • 4.1.6 Cancellation of an assignment or an allotment
          • 4.1.7 Updating of the Plans
        • 4.2 Coordination of assignments to other primary terrestrial services with the broadcasting service
          • 4.2.2 Initiation of the coordination procedure
          • 4.2.3 Request for inclusion in the agreement-seeking process
          • 4.2.4 Seeking agreement of the administrations which are considered to be affected and whose agreement has yet to be obtained
          • 4.2.5 Completion of the coordination procedure
          • 4.2.6 Updating of the List
      • ARTICLE 5 – Notification of frequency assignments
        • 5.1 Notification of frequency assignments to broadcasting stations
        • 5.2 Notification of frequency assignments to other primary terrestrial services
      • ARTICLE 6 – Settlement of disputes
      • ARTICLE 7 – Accession to the Agreement
      • ARTICLE 8 – Scope of application of the Agreement
      • ARTICLE 9 – Approval of the Agreement
      • ARTICLE 10 – Denunciation of the Agreement
      • ARTICLE 11 – Revision of the Agreement
      • ARTICLE 12 – Entry into force, duration and provisional application of the Agreement
      • Declarations and Reservations
      • Additional Declarations and Reservations
    • ANNEXES
      • ANNEX 1 – Frequency Plans
        • 1.1 T-DAB Plan assignments
        • 1.2 T-DAB Plan allotments
        • 1.3 DVB-T Plan assignments
        • 1.4 DVB-T Plan allotments
        • 1.5 Frequency Assignment Plan for Analogue Television Broadcasting in the frequency bands 174-230 MHz (for Morocco 170-230 MHz) and 470-862 MHz in the transition period (see Article 12 of the Agreement)
      • ANNEX 2 – Technical elements and criteria used in the development of the Plan and the implementation of the Agreement
        • CHAPTER 1 TO ANNEX 2 – Definitions
          • TABLE OF CONTENTS
          • 1.1 Digital terrestrial broadcasting systems
            • 1.1.1 Digital terrestrial television broadcasting (DTTB)
            • 1.1.2 Digital terrestrial sound broadcasting (DTSB)
          • 1.2 Frequency management
            • 1.2.1 Frequency bands
            • 1.2.2 Coverage area
            • 1.2.3 Service area
          • 1.3 Network planning
            • 1.3.1 Allotment planning
            • 1.3.2 Assignment planning
            • 1.3.3 Test points
            • 1.3.4 Nuisance field strength
            • 1.3.5 Minimum usable field strength/minimum field strength to be protected
            • 1.3.6 Usable field strength
            • 1.3.7 Reference field strength
            • 1.3.8 Minimum power flux-density jmin (dB(W/m2))
            • 1.3.9 Minimum median field strength Emed (dB(mV/m))
            • 1.3.10 Coordination trigger field strength
            • 1.3.11 Fixed reception
            • 1.3.12 Portable reception
            • 1.3.13 Mobile reception
            • 1.3.14 Multifrequency network (MFN)
            • 1.3.15 Single-frequency network (SFN)
            • 1.3.16 Reference planning configuration (RPC)
            • 1.3.17 Reference network (RN)
            • 1.3.18 Digital Plan entry
        • APPENDIX 1.1 – Definitions given in the Radio Regulations (RR) (Edition of 2004) and complemented by explanations in some relevant ITU-R Recommendations
        • CHAPTER 2 TO ANNEX 2 – Propagation information
          • TABLE OF CONTENTS
          • 2.1 Overview
          • 2.2 General description of the methodology
            • 2.2.1 Propagation curves
            • 2.2.2 Geographical division
            • 2.2.3 Prediction of wanted field strengths
            • 2.2.4 Prediction of interfering field strengths
            • 2.2.5 Correction factors
          • 2.3 Propagation information for assessing compatibility between the broadcasting service and other primary terrestrial services
            • 2.3.1 Compatibility between the broadcasting service and other primary terrestrial services
            • 2.3.2 Compatibility between the broadcasting service and airborne stations in the aeronautical services
        • APPENDIX 2.1 – The propagation prediction method
        • APPENDIX 2.2 – Tabulated values of field strength
        • APPENDIX 2.3 – Propagation curves
        • CHAPTER 3 TO ANNEX 2 – Technical basis for the terrestrial broadcasting service
          • 3.1 Terrestrial broadcasting systems, frequency bands, channel spacing and channel distribution
            • 3.1.1 Terrestrial broadcasting systems in Bands III, IV and V
            • 3.1.2 Frequency bands, channel spacing and channel distribution
          • 3.2 Reception modes for DVB-T and T-DAB
            • 3.2.1 Fixed reception
            • 3.2.2 Portable and mobile reception
            • 3.2.3 Reference planning configurations
          • 3.3 T-DAB and DVB-T receiver noise figure
          • 3.4 Planning criteria
            • 3.4.1 C/N values for planning
            • 3.4.2 Protection ratios
            • 3.4.3 Minimum signal levels for digital broadcasting systems
            • 3.4.4 Minimum signal levels for analogue broadcasting systems
            • 3.4.5 Location correction factors and percentage time
          • 3.5 Power-sum method
          • 3.6 Spectrum mask
            • 3.6.1 Spectrum mask for T-DAB
            • 3.6.2 Spectrum mask for DVB-T in 8 MHz and 7 MHz channels
        • APPENDIX 3.1 – DVB-T system variants
        • APPENDIX 3.2 – C/N values and minimum median field-strength values of different DVB-T system variants for different reception conditions
        • APPENDIX 3.3 – Protection ratios for terrestrial broadcasting systems
        • APPENDIX 3.4 – Calculation of minimum median field strengths
        • APPENDIX 3.5 – Reference planning configurations
        • APPENDIX 3.6 – Reference networks
        • APPENDIX 3.7 – Calculation of interference for single-frequency networks and allotments
        • CHAPTER 4 TO ANNEX 2 – Compatibility with other primary services
          • 4 Introduction
            • 4.1 Compatibility with other primary terrestrial services in the planned bands
              • 4.1.1 Other primary services and sharing situations in the bands 174-230 MHz and 470-862 MHz
              • 4.1.2 Protection of terrestrial services, including aeronautical stations of other primary terrestrial services, against transmissions of digital terrestrial broadcasting
              • 4.1.3 Protection of digital terrestrial broadcasting against transmissions of stations of other primary terrestrial services.
            • 4.2 Sharing situations with primary space services
        • APPENDIX 4.1 – Protection criteria for other primary services interfered with by T-DAB
        • APPENDIX 4.2 – Protection criteria for other primary services interfered with by DVB-T
          • ATTACHMENT TO APPENDIX 4.2 – Calculation of field strength of the allowed interfering television signal for generic cases of the fixed and mobile services used for the production of the Plan
        • APPENDIX 4.3 – Protection criteria for T-DAB interfered with by other primary services
        • APPENDIX 4.4 – Protection criteria for DVB-T interfered with by other primary services
        • APPENDIX 4.5 – Working assumptions concerning the other primary terrestrial services used for the development of the GE06 Plan for digital broadcasting
      • ANNEX 3* – Basic characteristics to be submitted in application of the Agreement
      • ANNEX 4
        • Section I of Annex 4 – Limits and methodology for determining when agreement with another administration is required
          • 1 Introduction
          • 2 Method for identifying potentially affected administrations
            • 2.1 Identification of administrations potentially affected by modifications to the Plans
            • 2.2 Identification of administrations potentially affected by assignments of other primary terrestrial services
          • 3 Construction of coordination contours
            • 3.1 Coordination contour requirements
            • 3.2 Additional contours
          • 4 Different coordination scenarios
            • 4.1 Individual stations operating from a fixed and determined location
            • 4.2 Typical transmitting stations operating from a fixed location within a specified service area
            • 4.3 Broadcasting stations operating in a single-frequency network
            • 4.4 Broadcasting allotments
            • 4.5 Mobile (except aeronautical mobile) stations
            • 4.6 Aeronautical radionavigation stations
          • 5 Determination of the coordination trigger field strength
            • 5.1 Modifications to the Plans
              • 5.1.1 Protection of the broadcasting service
              • 5.1.2 Protection of other primary terrestrial services
            • 5.2 Coordination of an assignment to a station in another primary terrestrial service
              • 5.2.1 Coordination of an assignment to a transmitting station in another primary terrestrial service
              • 5.2.2 Coordination of an assignment to a receiving station in another primary terrestrial service
          • Appendix 1 to Section I
          • Appendix 2 to Section I – Basis for the determination of the coordination trigger field strengths for the broadcasting service
          • Appendix 3 to Section I – Position and orientation of the reference network for allotment
        • Section II of Annex 4 – Examination of conformity with the digital Plan entry
          • 1 Introduction
          • 2 General principles
          • 3 Features of the method applicable to all digital Plan entries
            • 3.1 Field-strength calculations
            • 3.2 Construction of the geometrical contours and of the calculation points
          • 4 Application of the method to each type of digital Plan entries
            • 4.1 Digital Plan entry that comprises only an allotment
              • 4.1.1 Location of the assignments derived from the digital Plan entry
              • 4.1.2 Geometrical contours for the digital Plan entry
              • 4.1.3 Interference envelope of the digital Plan entry
              • 4.1.4 Interference field strength from digital Plan entry implementation
              • 4.1.5 Cut-off field-strength contour for the digital Plan entry
            • 4.2 Digital Plan entry comprising one assignment only
              • 4.2.1 Location of the notified assignment
              • 4.2.2 Geometrical contours for the digital Plan entry
              • 4.2.3 Interference envelope of the digital Plan entry
              • 4.2.4 Interference field strength from a digital Plan entry implementation
              • 4.2.5 Cut-off field-strength contour for the digital Plan entry
            • 4.3 Digital Plan entry comprising an allotment with linked assignments
              • 4.3.1 Location of the assignments implementing the digital Plan entry
              • 4.3.2 Geometrical contours for the digital Plan entry
              • 4.3.3 Interference envelope of the digital Plan entry
              • 4.3.4 Interference field strength from a digital Plan entry implementation
              • 4.3.5 Cut-off field-strength contour for the digital Plan entry
            • 4.4 Digital Plan entry comprising a set of assignments with a common SFN identifier
              • 4.4.1 Location of the notified assignments
              • 4.4.2 Geometrical contours for the digital Plan entry
              • 4.4.3 Interference envelope of the digital Plan entry
              • 4.4.4 Interference field strength from a digital Plan entry implementation
              • 4.4.5 Cut-off contour for a set of assignments with common SFN identifier
            • 4.5 Digital Plan entry comprising an assignment linked to an allotment with no SFN identifier
          • Appendix 1 to Section II – Construction of the geometrical contour for allotment Plan entries and allotment with linked assignments Plan entries
          • Appendix 2 to Section II – Positioning and orientation of the reference network for calculating the interference envelope of digital Plan entries comprising an allotment or an allotment with linked assignments
          • Appendix 3 to Section II – Construction of the cut-off field-strength contour
          • Appendix 4 to Section II – Terms used in this Annex
      • ANNEX 5 – List of assignments to other primary terrestrial services as referred to in § 1.15 of Article 1 of the Agreement
    • RESOLUTIONS
      • RESOLUTION 1 (RRC-06) – Broadcasting-satellite service in the band 620-790 MHz
      • RESOLUTION 2 (RRC-06) – Characteristics for the coordination and the notification of primary terrestrial services in the bands 174-230 MHz and 470-862 MHz in the planning area