The digital dividend, under debate

El próximo 9 de mayo, el Instituto de Fomento Empresarial (IFE) en colaboración con Panorama Audiovisual, convocan una jornada centrada en el dividendo digital en la que destacados expertos debatirán sobre las cuestiones que quedan aún pendientes en torno al dividendo digital en estos primeros meses del año.

Son muchas las cuestiones que rodean al dividendo digital con un impacto directo en el futuro del sector audiovisual y las nuevas formas de distribución multidispositivo.
To clarify the issues that are still pending regarding the digital dividend in these first months of the year, the Business Development Institute, in collaboration with Panorama Audiovisual, will organize a conference on May 9 in which prominent experts will participate.

The radio space is finite and 4G services will require more and more bandwidth to be able to offer new features and services. The deployment of LTE networks will mean new business opportunities but also great challenges such as the efficient management of the radio spectrum and its coexistence with digital terrestrial TV broadcasts.

The frequencies between 790 and 860 MHz (digital dividend) will no longer be used for the transmission of Terrestrial Television and will be assigned to mobile telephone operators to provide services starting in 2014. What consequences will this change entail?

The digital dividend represents a radical change for the sectors involved since there are still many unknowns to be resolved: readaptation, changes, costs, spectrum management, emergence of new business models based on mobile video... You. You can't stay on the sidelines!

Added to this are the changes made by the current Government with respect to the previous one and the Supreme Court ruling that understands that the licenses should have been awarded by public tender, although the ruling will not affect the current operators.

This conference, which will take place at the Intercontinental Hotel in Madrid, will address issues such as the current situation of DTT and future prospects, the implementation models of the Digital Dividend, Legal and regulatory aspects, costs derived from the implementation of the Digital Dividend, pay TV in the face of new emerging services, technological developments, present and future, new content distribution platforms, development of digital content, and the future of DTT in the face of new digital dividends.

La jornada sobre el dividendo digital estará presidida por Eladio Gutiérrez, ex-presidente de Impulsa TDT y socio-director de EGM Consultoría, y contará con la participación, entre otros, de Raúl Rubio (Baker&McKenzie), Josep Ventosa (Abertis Telecom), Alejandro Perales (AUC), Miguel Angel García-Argüelles (FENITEL), Pedro Alonso Manjón (SETSI), Miguel Ángel Cristóbal (Sapec), Pablo Romero (Yomvi/Canal+), Antonio Castillo (Panorama Audiovisual), Jordi Miró (Wuaki.Tv) y Antonio Fernández-Paniagua Díaz-Flores (Ministerio de Industria, Energía y Turismo).

Access to the program and registration, here.