FWIW - not directly related to R3 but to DTT/Freeview. A few of you may be interested in these proposals to release the DTT spectrum to other users than broadcasters on a licence exempt basis - ie anyone can transmit services of more or less any kind in the DTT frequencies without a formal licence by building a suitable transmission network.
The techies among you might also enjoy the accompanying technical report that runs to 167 pages!!! It tells a lot about the UK Planning Model used for all radio/wireless services incuding DAB and so might shed a couple of photons on some of our DAB coverage discussions.
See it all here:
This comes hard on the heels of the proposals to shift Freeview yet again [it was recently shifted to make way for 4G in 800MHz band, now being built] out of the current 700MHz [to make way for even more 4G] and be squeezed into a smaller block of spectrum. IE all existing services to be transmitted in quite a bit less spectrum. Likely around 2018 or so. There are also proposals to introduce a new costing model to set the pricing of spectrum including that used by PSB - see here:
Government seem adamant that they want to squeeze PSB services in favour of commercially more lucrative ones.
The techies among you might also enjoy the accompanying technical report that runs to 167 pages!!! It tells a lot about the UK Planning Model used for all radio/wireless services incuding DAB and so might shed a couple of photons on some of our DAB coverage discussions.
See it all here:
This comes hard on the heels of the proposals to shift Freeview yet again [it was recently shifted to make way for 4G in 800MHz band, now being built] out of the current 700MHz [to make way for even more 4G] and be squeezed into a smaller block of spectrum. IE all existing services to be transmitted in quite a bit less spectrum. Likely around 2018 or so. There are also proposals to introduce a new costing model to set the pricing of spectrum including that used by PSB - see here:
Government seem adamant that they want to squeeze PSB services in favour of commercially more lucrative ones.
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