Digital dividend focus - the cost of the free market

Auctioning the UK's freed-up analogue TV spectrum on a technology neutral basis could cost hundreds of millions of pounds in re-engineering fees.

Public service broadcasters are urging the British government and UK telecoms regulator Ofcom to follow the French example and make a sizeable chunk of the UHF spectrum, which will be freed up by the switch-off of analogue TV, available for the provision of High Definition Television (HDTV) on the DTT platform.

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