MEPs hold inconclusive public hearing on digital dividend

The Industry Committee's latest mini-hearing saw some familiar arguments raised but little sign of emerging political agreement.

The European Parliament wants to find a balance between liberalisation of broadcasting frequencies and public interests such as cultural diversity and maintaining media pluralism. But at a public hearing organised in Brussels on March 27 broadcasters and mobile telephone operators continued to put forward contrasting views over the issue of the 'digital dividend', or the use of frequencies freed up by the switchover from analogue to digital television.

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