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Public Roads Administration operators have previously used FM signals to send important safety messages to drivers in tunnels. But only those listening to a specific FM frequency would receive the messages. One of the advantages of DAB is that emergency service messages can be heard via the DAB radio, whatever radio station the driver is listening to.

This first multimedia system for motor homes is equipped with a top CD/DVD drive, but also has a DAB+ receiver for perfect quality radio reception.

The SC-ALL7CD is a compact audio system from Panasonic’s ALL multiroom range, offering network, CD, Bluetooth and USB playback alongside DAB/DAB+.

Equipment levels are generous across the range and this flagship gets a seven-inch multimedia touchscreen interface with mobile phone mirroring capability, climate control, satnav, DAB radio, Bluetooth, automatic lights and wipers and keyless entry and ignition.

Ahead of the digital switchover in Norway, a campaigng was launched to educate consumers on how to recycle their FM receivers, or upgrade them to digital radio using an adaptor.

DIGIDIA has won, together with Norking and TC Connect, another major contract for DAB tunnel break-in in Norway. The total contract is for 33 DAB break-in systems to cover 46 tunnels in the middle region of Norway.

The car includes plenty of gadgets such as a sat-nav, Bluetooth and a DAB radio.

Creature comforts are plentiful and include the likes of heated front seats, a superb sound system which can be hooked up to all modern media devices, a DAB digital radio and a high resolution seven-inch multi-media display screen.

MEDIA BROADCAST will continue its expansion of the nationwide DAB+ digital radio transmitter network by opening another nine transmitter locations in Bavaria, Brandenburg, Bremen, North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate. By the end of 2016 it hopes to grow their number of transmitter sites to 110, giving 95% mobile outdoor coverage.

Infoblu and RTL 102.5 are launching a new commercial service of traffic information known as TPEG (Transport Protocol Experts Group), which runs on the digital network DAB+.