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Analogue radio given 10-year stay of execution as the UK U-turns on DAB digital future

cyberdemon Silver badge
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Ofcom..

So you're saying that Ofcom believed that analogue radio was going to die out very soon (despite massive opposition for a switch off) and so they reduced the analogue license fees to essentially zero for an entire decade?

Trebles all round at Classic FM then! Sucks to be a new national DAB station like Union JACK in that case.

I seem to remember multiple Beeellions being involved in the 2004 analogue TV spectrum auction..

Presumably Vodafone et al must have realised by now that 200MHz wavelength is a bit long for a handset (unless they wanted it for backhaul) but while switching off analogue TV made sense with the compression ratio that digital video affords, doing the same for radio is and always was stupid. It occupies very little bandwidth anyway, and the costs outweigh the benefits in every area. e.g. people listen to radio on the move, whereas TVs are usually static, so they don't need to re-establish a link. Once the antenna is tweaked enough to work, it usually stays that way.

Whereas driving around with a DAB radio in the car going on and off is beyond annoying.

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