Broadcast / regulatory

We Offer The Most Complete Product Innovation In The broadcast/regulatory Market segment

LS has been involved in the broadcasting industry since the early nineties, and has been involved in some of the most significant broadcast projects in various roles.
LS prides itself in the fact that it is able to provide full turnkey broadcast projects, which includes:

• Planning
• System Design
• Site Surveys
• Site Establishment
• Shelters
• Installation
• Commissioning
• Verification by RPA

LS of South Africa assumes a vendor-agnostic approach to broadcast projects, rather considering the specific requirements of each project and client, and then suggesting a solution best-suited to it.
LS of South Africa has successfully executed broadcast projects of various sized in numerous African countries and its network of local partners in these countries is well-established.

Spectrum Consultancy, Network Design, Planning, Procurement, Roll-out & Optimisation
Professional network and coverage planning is the foundation of any robust and cost-effective broadcast network delivering high quality of service. We cover the end-to-end broadcast network deployment process. This includes spectrum planning and coordination, migration from analogue to digital, analysis of potential technologies and various planning and optimisation simulations. We take care of bid planning, project and procurement management and assist your roll-out with our system integration services. Our planning results in an effective network roll-out plan.
The broadcast industry is undergoing rapid change. With technology evolution and regulations change. Digitisation has brought many opportunities, but also many challenges. We can help you to fully exploit the opportunities and overcome the challenges.
We assist you in:

• developing the best spectrum strategies & policies
• mastering the digital switch-over
• frequency sharing / broadcast protection studies

Broadcast Consulting Services

• Strategic Business Consulting
• Identification and definition of the business requirements
• Preparation and evaluation of tenders and RFP’s, vendor audit
• Feasibility studies of new and existing technologies
• Frequency Planning and Coordination
• Coordination analysis according to ITU recommendations
• Interference investigation and elimination
• Determination of the optimum network configuration
• in terms of spectrum efficiency
• Design of Digital-Switch-Over scenario
• Network Planning
• Country-wide, regional or small networks
• MFN and SFN planning
• Using existing analogue structure for digital networks
• Interference and self-interference analysis
• Network Implementation, Verification and Optimisation
• Roll-Out planning
• Management of measurement campaigns
• Optimisation of the network in terms of quality and cost-efficiency
• Observation of network build-up

LS telcom is widely recognised in the industry for its RF planning and consulting services and has a proven track record of delivering quality results in radio engineering and strategic consulting covering all common Broadcast and Mobile TV technologies. With our long standing experience in the broadcast sector, LS telcom ranks among the pioneers in analogue and digital broadcasting. Our distinctive service portfolio addresses network operators, regulatory organisations as well as system suppliers.

Strategic Business Consulting

• Development, evaluation and review of digital migration plans
• Management workshops on transition from
• analogue to digital terrestrial TV
• Feasibility studies
• Business plan analysis
• Network Implementation, Verification and Optimisation
• Implementation strategy/Roll-out planning
• RFP process, vendor pre-selection
• Coverage and quality measurements and predictions
• Quality and cost network optimisation
• Spectrum Planning and Coordination
• Spectrum strategy and planning
• Coordination analysis according ITU recommendations
• GE06 conformity evaluation
• Optimisation of frequency assignments
• Coverage Planning
• Radio planning of Single Frequency (SFN’s) and Multi Frequency Networks (MFN’s)
• Design and analysis of country wide, regional or small networks
• Interference and self-interference investigations
• Re-use of existing analogue infrastructure