scope:

Introduction

The name "telesoftware" was first used at the time of the pioneering transmissions in the UK from Independent Television in 1977 to describe transmissions of coded data and computer programs.

Telesoftware is now one of the data broadcasting services recognized by the CCIR (Report 802-2) and it complies with the definition of the broadcasting service as given in Article 36 of the Radio Regulation.

The activities described in the Report relate to the following definition of "telesoftware": the provision, via telecommunications or broadcast networks, of the software and associated data files intended to be acquired and then executed or used by terminals subject, when appropriate, to certain conditions governing access and payment.

Section 2 of this Report presents a survey of existing operational of experimental telesoftware services within broadcasting organizations. Section 3 summarizes the technical aspects of telesoftware. More detailed information about these technical aspects is given in the Annex. Section 4 identifies potential areas of standardization in the telesoftware domain.