Worldwide interest in DAB+ growing

4th September 2007

According to Kenneth Lundgren, Managing Director of Factum Electronics, his company has begun delivering its DAB+ multiplex equipment to :

"Commercial Radio Australia in Australia, TELEKO, s.r.o. in the Czech Republic, T-Systems in Germany, and RTL 102,5, Club DAB Italia and another network operator in Italy"

and he also says that:

"DAB+ is expected to be used in a number of other countries where it is currently undergoing trials, such as China, India, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Malta and Malaysia"

Malta will be the first country to fully launch DAB+ when it launches its service in December this year, and all radio stations on digital radio in Malta will be using DAB+.

There's some more information about DAB+ being tested in Italy in this article, which is encouraging, because Italy has up until now not shown much interest in digital radio at all.

Also, quoting from the Wohnort DAB website, DAB+ test transmissions have started in Berlin recently:

"DAB+ transmissions have popped up in the German capital. The Block LE ensemble Berlin/BRBG LE has been relabelled DABplus. The ensemble is reported to be broadcasting four services using the recently adopted codec AAC/AAC+:- DLF DAB+, DKULTUR +, POP 64 and POP 40. A new service has popped up using the original codec MPEG 1 Layer II. POP 128 Musicam would appear to be a reference service running at 128 kbit/s."

This follows the regulators for Bavaria, the BLM, providing incentives to radio stations to use DAB+ earlier this year, and if Germany as a whole adopts DAB+ that would be excellent news for the development of the new system.

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