Scrap looms over radio waves

Europe’s leading mobile phone operators on Monday set themselves on a collision course with television broadcasters by making a pitch to secure a big chunk of the “digital dividend” radio ­spectrum.

Spectrum Value Partners: Assessing the impact of an early decision on a Digital Dividend Spectrum Allocation, October 2007 
 
 http://www.spectrumstrategy.com/Pages/GB/perspectives/An-early-allocation-of-UHF-spectrum.pdf

European Commission: DG Information Society: Policies: eCommunications: Tomorrow's Framework http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/ecomm/tomorrow/index_en.htm

ESO: Background information http://www.europeansources.info/record/mep-to-press-for-easing-of-telecoms-overhaul/

European Broadcasting Union: Position Paper, december 2006: EBU comments on the RSPG Opinion on EU spectrum policy implications on the digital dividend http://www.ebu.ch/CMSimages/en/leg_pp_digitaldividend_141207_tcm6-49727.pdf

EBU: Position Paper, February 2008: 2007 EU Telecoms Reform... http://www.ebu.ch/CMSimages/en/leg_pp_telecom_com2007_%20697_190208_tcm6-57684.pdf

Website: Radio Spectrum Policy Group http://rspg.groups.eu.int/

EBU: European Broadcasters’ view on Spectrum policy http://www.ebu.ch/en/union/under_banners/DigitalDividend.php

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