Look TV uses microwave frequencies in the MDS band at 2.5 GHz to deliver the signal to the home. Our Southern Ontario license has a potential of about three million homes. However for those who do choose our service, microwaves in the 2.5 GHz range do not suffer from problems associated with rain fading. Our Phase-one area covers all of the greater Toronto area as well as Aurora and Barrie. To deliver the MMDS signal, Eppinghoven is looking for large towers to transmit from.
Big towers provide a greater line of site and work best for our cells.
They can deliver our signal within a radius of 20 kilometers of the transmission site. For our launch we will be using transmitters here in Milton, at the CN Tower in Toronto, Oshawa, Aurora and the CKVR tower in Barrie. Eventually our coverage area will extend to all of Southern Ontario and to a similar sized licensed area in Quebec. Look TV is licensed for 90 MHz of bandwidth and is employing 64 QAM modulation to deliver its signals to the set-top box. And like all digital services, Look TV requires a set-top box to decode the incoming channels.