El dividendo digital: desafíos, oportunidades y posiciones nacionales

Abstract

Resumen: La gestión del espectro radioeléctrico que ha ordenado el funcionamiento nacional e internacional de la radio y la televisión a lo largo de todo el siglo XX está en cuestión. No sólo han aparecido nuevos agentes que reclaman una porción de este recurso intangible y finito, sino que nuevos usos tecnológicos están sometiendo a una importante presión a la lógica de explotación tradicional. En este contexto, uno de los grandes interrogantes refiere a los posibles usos que se darán y los beneficios que se obtendrán de las frecuencias que se liberen con el cese de las emisiones analógicas. Así pues, el objetivo es comprender cuáles son las oportunidades y amenazas que el denominado dividendo digital traerá consigo: a partir de analizar las transformaciones que sufre hoy la gestión tradicional del espectro radioeléctrico, y en función del posicionamiento que algunos países están tomando al respecto (específicamente, España y el Reino Unido).Palabras clave: Espectro radioeléctrico; políticas de comunicación; dividendo digital; radio y televisión digital. UniónInternacional de Telecomunicaciones. Abstract:The management of the radio-frequency spectrum that has organized national and international broadcasting throughout the 20th century is under review. Not only there are new actors that demand a portion of this intangible and limited resource, but also a large and growing number of services put additional pressure on the traditional logics that regulate spectrum management. In this context, a key issue refers to the potential uses that will be given, as well as the benefits that will be obtained, from the amount of spectrum that will be freed up in the switchover from analogue to digital broadcasting. Therefore, the objective is to understand which are the opportunities and challenges the so called digital dividend will bring about: analyzing the transformations affecting traditional spectrum management, and considering the positions some countries are already developing (specially Spain and the United Kingdom). Keywords

When efficiency meets clientelism: Spectrum management policy and broadcasting model – The Spanish case

“…Several previous studies by authors on the subject of both radio (Arboledas and Bonet, 2013, 2014; Bonet, 2007, 2012; Bonet and Arboledas, 2011; Bonet et al, 2009) and television (Bonet et al, 2014; Guimerà, 2006, 2014; Guimerà and Blasco, 2012; Guimerà and Bonet, 2012) and the liberalization of radio spectrum, digital dividend or the switch-off (Bonet et al, 2008) offer suggestions of unprofessional and highly politically motivated management both in terms of radio and television. Studies by other authors (Ala-Fossi and Bonet, 2015; Cullell, 2011; Delgado, 2015; Fernández-Quijada and Arboledas, 2013; García Leiva, 2009, 2013; García Leiva and Starks, 2009; Massaro, 2013; Schumann, 2011) indicate the same kind of tendency regarding the future of broadcasting and the key role radio spectrum is playing.…”

The Relationship Between English Language Adoption and Global Digital Inequality

“…As noted earlier, the Information Telecommunication Union (ITU), a leading organization in the collection and dissemination of ICT statistics worldwide, has developed various indices in response to the call of bridging the global digital divide. ITU has spent decades of efforts in the construction of ICT Development Index (IDI) which is now widely used by scholars as a composite index to track the digital divide among countries and to measure countries' capacities of becoming ICT societies (Ashling, 2007;García Leiva, 2009;ITU, 2009). The IDI was created based on three main categories: 1.…”

Propuesta De Diseño De Un Radio Definido Porsoftware Para La Caracterización De La Banda Imt

“…Estos operadores o frecen a los usuarios de tecnologías móviles tecnologías de tipo GSM/EDGE, UMTS/HDSPA y 4G/LTE Al analizar las bandas de IMT se observa una banda denominada dividendo digital [3]. En la evolución de la televisión analógica a digital se generó liberación de una porción de espectro radioeléctrico, a esta liberación y aprovechamiento de espectro se le denomina Dividendo Digital.…”