MEPs call for mandatory digital dividend harmonisation

The agreed version of the European Parliament's digital dividend report goes further than the European Commission by calling for a compulsory EU-wide approach to all the released analogue TV frequencies.

The European Parliament's Industry Committee has adopted a report calling for the reallocation to mobile and other services--such as public safety services, RFID, and road safety applications--of around 100 megahertz of frequency freed up by the switchover from analogue to digital terrestrial TV. Lawmakers called for this to be done by the end of 2012, and said the exercise should "not stop broadcasting services from flourishing".

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