In article , Andrew Walls
writes
What are they going to do with the freed-up FM bandwidth?



Well the government thinks it will be able to sell it all of like they
did with the 3G mobile phone licences, and it always seems that they
have mobile Telco applications in mind. However since 3G hasn't been the
commercial success some thought it would be, and band 2 isn't the best
frequency for mobile apps and theres still a lot of unused spectrum that
is available that, I think they are on the wrong track.

So they may sell it off to DAB service providers, and or they may push
for L band to be used as Don suggests, trouble is that this will cost
the broadcasters a lorra dosh and their simply isn't the advert revenue
to pay for it all, the radio industry knows this but the regulators
don't

Still, I'll put money on that analogue radio will be around for many
years to come yet, and the ministry of disinformation will wake up to
the uneconomic error of their ways.....
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Tony Sayer