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D2M technology

  • Posted By
    10Pointer
  • Categories
    Science & Technology
  • Published
    6th Jun, 2022

Context

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and India’s public service broadcaster Prasar Bharati are exploring the feasibility of a technology that allows broadcasting video and other forms of multimedia content directly to mobile phones, without needing an active internet connection.

What is D2M Technology?

  • The technology is based on the convergence of broadband and broadcast, using which mobile phones can receive terrestrial digital TV.
  • It would be similar to how people listen to FM radio on their phones, where a receiver within the phone can tap into radio frequencies.
  • Using D2M, multimedia content can also be beamed to phones directly.

Possible Benefits of D2M

  • It allows broadcasting video and other forms of multimedia content directly to mobile phones, without needing an active internet connection.
    • The content should stream without any buffering whatsoever while not consuming any internet data.
  • It promises to improve consumption of broadband and utilisation of spectrum.
  • It can possibly be used to directly broadcast content related to citizen-centric information.
  • It can be further used to counter fake news, issue emergency alerts and offer assistance in disaster management.
  • It can be used to broadcast live news, sports etc. on mobile phones.

Impact 

  • For consumers, a technology like this would mean that they would be able to access multimedia content from Video on Demand (VoD) or Over the Top (OTT) content platforms.
  • This will be without having to exhaust their mobile data, and more importantly, at a nominal rate.
  • The technology will also allow people from rural areas, with limited or no internet access, to watch video content.
  • For businesses, one of the key benefits of the technology is that it can enable telecom service providers to offload video traffic from their mobile network onto the broadcast network.
  • It thus helps them to decongest valuable mobile spectrum.
  • This will also improve usage of mobile spectrum and free up bandwidth which will help reduce call drops, increase data speeds etc.

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