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The demo broadcast of “Enhanced GPS” (eGPS) data using ATSC 3.0, a next-generation digital broadcast standard, showed it could deliver positional accuracy within a few centimeters, according to the companies. ATSC 3.0 comprises around 20 standards covering different aspects of the system and in total will have over 1,000 pages of documentation. The first major deployments of ATSC 3.0 occurred in South Korea, with the country’s major television networks launching terrestrial ATSC 3.0 services in May 2017 in preparation for the 2018 Winter Olympics. In November 2017, the United States’ Federal Communications Commission approved regulations allowing broadcast stations to voluntarily offer ATSC 3.0 services. Commenting on the proof of concept, John Hane, President of BitPath noted, “Today’s demonstration shows one of many high-value, low-bandwidth applications for broadcast data.