The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) today released a Consultation Paper on “Formulating a Digital Radio Broadcast Policy for private Radio broadcasters”. TRAI has initiated the process to seek stakeholders’ comments on various issues relating to formulation of digital radio broadcast policy for private Radio broadcasters. Stakeholders can write comments on the consultation paper till 28th October. Counter comments can be submitted by 11th November. The comments and counter-comments can be sent in electronic form on the email ID, advbcs-2@trai.gov.in <mailto:advbcs-2@trai.gov.in> and jtadvbcs-1@trai.gov.in <mailto:jtadvbcs-1@trai.gov.in> .
Akashvani has initiated digitization of its analogue Medium Wave and Short Wave radio broadcast network and replaced its existing 38 analogue transmitters with digital transmitters. It has conducted trials for digital radio technologies in FM band also. Digital Radio broadcasting will provide a number of advantages over analogue radio broadcasting.
