There is a high level of activity in eMBMS/LTE Broadcast activities globally with traction building across all regions. Several use cases are being developed and trialled, and more are emerging.
See the list of all LTE Broadcast system investments (deployments, launches, trials, studies) by 37 operators and broadcasters in this status report, which is an extract from the Evolution to LTE report published on January 30, 2017 https://gsacom.com/paper/gsa-evolution-lte-report-january-2017/
Complete details per operator are available in the mentioned Evolution to LTE report.
In November 2015 GSA published a major report: “Evaluating the LTE Broadcast Opportunity”. The report was sponsored by EE, PCCW HKT (CSL), Plus (Polkomtel), Smartfren, Telstra with additional key contributions from the BBC, Ericsson, Expway, Huawei, Institut fuer Rundfunktechnik GmbH, Nokia, and Qualcomm Inc. as well as inputs from other key stakeholders. The report is free to download https://gsacom.com/paper/evaluating-the-lte-broadcast-opportunity/
A related paper “LTE Broadcast – Lessons Learned from Trials and Early Deployments” published by the LTE Broadcast Alliance is also available https://gsacom.com/paper/lte-broadcast-white-paper/
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