Industry Glossary

Target Audience Rating Point - the average viewing audience for a demographic expressed as a percentage of the relevant universe. Also expressed as an absolute figure (average audience).

A mobile TV standard using China's home-grown 3G mobile telecommunication standard, TD-SCDMA.

Telephone Company

Tethered communication is the transfer of information over a distance using wires.

Communications Authority of Thailand

The Directorate General of Posts and Telecommunications (Indonesia) (http://www.postel.go.id/)

The Government Information Office (Taiwan) (http://www.gio.gov.tw/)

The Info-communications Development Authority of Singapore (http://www.ida.gov.sg/)

The Korea Broadcasting Commission (http://www.kbc.go.kr/index.jsp)

The Korea Communications Commission (http://eng.kcc.go.kr/)

The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (http://www.skmm.gov.my/)

Media Development Authority (http://www.mda.gov.sg)

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (Japan) (http://www.soumu.go.jp/)

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India) (http://mib.nic.in/)

The Ministry of Posts and Telematics

The National Communications Council (Taiwan) (http://www.ncc.gov.tw/)

Nepal Telecommunications Authority (http://www.nta.gov.np/)

National Telecommunications Commission (Thailand) (http://eng.ntc.or.th/)

Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (http://www.trc.gov.lk/)

TimeShift channels give subscribers the opportunity to view scheduled programming two hours later (+2) than broadcast on the main channel.

Technology standard - NuFront

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (http://www.trai.gov.in/Default.asp)

The part of a satellite that receives and transmits a signal.

An occupied household having one or more television receivers in use.

Please see "Spot"

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