[BC] Digital en Mexico

[Glen Kippel]

I was just looking up some info on the sct.gob.mx website and found this
article from la Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes, Comision Federal
de Telecomunicaciones (here's kind of a rough translation - maybe somebody
can improve on it):

The open radio is a free activity by which many people obtain information
and entertainment.  Radio [broadcasting] is one of the first technologies of
radio communications that was put in operation and is operated in relatively
low bands, as is the case of AM or adjacent to the television in VHF, like
the case of FM.



At present they develop in the world three standards, mainly, that are
focused to the open digital radio, and they are:



1) IBOC, based on a technology by the one that intends to transmit in the
same channel and in the same band, so much for AM as for FM.



2) Eureka-147 (DAB), based on a technology that requires the use of a new
band, that of 1452-1492 MHz would be the one that could be applied in
Mexico.



3) DRM, based on a technology that requires the broadcast in a channel
exclusively inside the same band, its present focus is toward the shortwave
bands and AM.



The SCT continues the studies to determine the standard that should be
utilized in Mexico as well as the politics that will continue for the case.