{"id":18913,"date":"2024-01-03T06:13:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T00:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18913"},"modified":"2025-04-05T14:03:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T08:33:48","slug":"d2m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/d2m\/","title":{"rendered":"Direct-to-mobile (D2M) technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Direct-to-mobile (D2M) technology<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The science behind D2M is similar to\u00a0that of an FM radio, where a receiver within the device can tap into different radio frequencies.<\/li>\n<li>This new-age technology is a\u00a0combination of broadband and broadcast that uses mobile phones to capture territorial digital TV signals.<\/li>\n<li>Using D2M, multimedia content, including live TV matches, can be streamed to phones directly without using the internet.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>D2M can ensure-\n<ul>\n<li>Emergency alerts are delivered directly,\u00a0reliably and without dependence on internet\/cellular networks.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Disaster Management audio content\u00a0is delivered directly and authentically in a targeted manner.<\/li>\n<li>With D2M, governments can broadcast citizen-centric information.<\/li>\n<li>This approach benefits consumers by reducing their reliance on internet data consumption for staying informed and entertained.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Challenges involved\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>It is still in the\u00a0development stage.<\/li>\n<li>The biggest challenge in front of the government is to bring different stakeholders, including telecommunications, on board in launching D2M tech on a wide scale.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What Is Broadband?<\/h3>\n<p>Broadband refers to various high-capacity transmission technologies that transmit data, voice, and video across long distances and at high speeds. Common mediums of transmission include coaxial cables, fiber optic cables, and radio waves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/gadgets-news\/why-telcos-are-asking-govt-to-auction-direct-to-mobile-services-spectrum\/articleshow\/106323835.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Why telcos are asking govt to auction direct-to-mobile services spectrum<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Direct-to-mobile (D2M) technology  is a combination of broadband and broadcast that uses mobile phones to capture territorial digital TV signals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}