Digital Transmission Networks

Our history in digital broadcasting goes back as early as 1975 when we worked with the BBC to bring Teletext to the UK.  Moving forward to the early 1990s we began to demonstrate digital television to broadcasters and governments throughout the world as we developed the technology to bring digital terrestrial television (DTT) to life.

In 1998 we began providing DTT services to two of the major multiplex operators, Digital 3 and 4 and SDN by building the world's first and what remains the most complex DTT network in the UK - a system we still manage operationally and develop continually today.  50 years after we first transmitted ITV to British homes, we deliver this channel across all digital and analogue terrestrial platforms, digital satellite and to cable head ends for distribution to cable viewers.

For these pioneering projects we always work closely with our customers to develop their systems according to their needs.  We then work with our suppliers, contractors and industry bodies to make sure our customers get the quality they expect, on time and on budget.

An all digital future

We are now moving ahead and looking at ways of securing revenue for our customers in the future.  Digital is the key to the future of broadcasting and especially so in Mobile Television. Our roots in mobile TV go back to our trials in Singapore in 2000 where we subsequently implemented the world's first mobile TV transmission system - for special screens on public transport.  Since then we have developed new systems and new partnerships, culminating in the first commercial trials of mobile TV to handheld devices in Oxford in 2005.

Now, with Britain's terrestrial television broadcasting due to be wholly digital by 2012, the world of broadcasting is facing its most important era of change.  With our experience - and with a unique combination of know-how, skills and infrastructure we're ideally placed to lead the way into the future.