A digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) system and conditional access
method for regionally limiting DMB reception. A DMB station collects
information about location of a DMB receiving terminal when a broadcast
channel with regional conditional access features is being broadcast.
According to the current location of a DMB receiving terminal, the DMB
station checks subscribers whose reception of the broadcast channel with
the regional conditional reception features is limited. The DMB station
includes reception restriction information for limiting the reception of
the broadcast channel in subscriber entitlement information of
subscribers. The DMB receiving terminal descrambles and outputs a
transport stream (TS) packet of the broadcast channel according to the
received subscriber entitlement information. Therefore, the reception of
a specific broadcast channel can be limited according to location of a
user of the DMB receiving terminal.