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Austria - Coverage - History

27.09.2014

The application for a test phase will foresee one year, with the possibility of an additional second year. After this test phase, a rollout from east to west of Austria is intended to start.

25.09.2013

The application for a test phase will foresee one year, with the possibility of an additional second year. After this test phase, a rollout from east to west of Austria is intended to start.

08.03.2013

Two DAB trials ended in 2008. One had started in 1999 in the capital Vienna and covered up to 1.73 million people. The other one started in 2000 in the federal state of Tyrol (two sites near the capital of Innsbruck ) and covered round about 295,000 people, approximately 40% of the Tyrolian population. The two trials were run by the public broadcaster ORF, with only ORF programs transmitted. About 19% of Austria’s population was covered by a T-DAB signal.

In 2011 the network operator ORS GmbH, a 60% subsidiary of the ORF, made plans to launch a DAB+ trial in 2012 but stopped the project in autumn 2011.