New Ofcom wireless mic arrangement get qualified support

The UK regulator's decision to allow the users of wireless microphones temporary access to released TV analogue channels has been welcomed by a trade body as a step in the right direction.

When digital switchover is completed in the UK programme making and special events services (PMSE) - predominantly wireless microphone users - will lose access to the 14 channels that they share with analogue TV services. Ofcom's original 2005 plans to auction all the frequencies released by digital switchover provoked an outcry from the PMSE community who said that as a disparate group of small companies they could not compete against the giants of the mobile phone industry in bidding for the freed-up bands. This has led to Ofcom modifying its proposals.

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