Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Digital dividend: is a compromise emerging?

With growing support for the European Commission's 'clusters' approach and Vodafone saying broadcasters should get HD spectrum, a meeting of minds on the principles of reusing the analogue TV bands appears closer.

Why would Vodafone, the mobile industry's most enthusiastic liberaliser, be happy for HDTV spectrum to be reserved for broadcasters? After all, HDTV requires three times as much highly valuable UHF spectrum as standard definition TV.

Read the full details at:

http://www.policytracker.com/alerts.php?tact=722

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