Introduction to the 5G Media Action Group (5G-MAG)

The 5G-MAG has recently been launched as an asociation that will take the emerging 3GPP 5G standards and turn them into viable solutions for use by media companies around the world. The establishment of the group was facilitated by the EBU in Geneva and its early membership includes many of Europe’s public service broadcasters along with some global manufacturers.

The 5G-MAG aims to ensure to represent the interests of the world-wide media industry in the various 5G stakeholder groups including; 3GPP and DVB and the ATSC for standardisation, the European Commission and ITU for regulation and a wide range of industry bodies.

Its main aim is to ensure that these emergent standards meet the needs of media companies for both production and distribution and to hep facilitate and promote trials for these use cases. It will also investigate and help design networks which are best suited to the distribution of media includng hybrid 5G/broadcast networks.

Gregory Bensberg | Digital 3&4/ITV | London, United Kingdom