Sweden considers use of digital dividend

The Swedish government will decide on the use of freed-up analogue television spectrum by the end of the year, ministers said at a parliamentary hearing on digital TV. Switch-off is expected to be complete by November.

'Most of the comments made at the hearing came from those who had responded to the government's consultation on the digital dividend, so there was much that had been heard before,' says Jonas Wessel, expert adviser in the office of the director general at Swedish regulator the National Post and Telecom Agency (PTS). 'However, the government did say that by the end of the year, it will have reached some kind of conclusion on how much terrestrial TV there will be in Sweden after analogue switch-off.'

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