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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
H’mmm. How do you explain this, then?
“I think a lot of people are seeing 5G as possibly the replacement of digital terrestrial television transmission in general. If you talk to key broadcasters in the UK as well as other countries, broadcasters are looking to internet-based delivery as the main channel to the consumer in the next 10 years. Digital satellite, digital terrestrial, digital cable, whilst they are the main tenets of getting to our key audience at the moment, they are going to diminish significantly. There will still be requirements for efficient multicast to consumers and the use of the 5G technology toolkit outside of the service provider offering of 5G is something that’s of interest to broadcasters in that space.”
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Your quote doesn't address UHF spectrum at all. What it does float is the idea that broadcasters might be looking at deploying their own 5G multicast technology in order to directly reach viewers in the medium term. If that's the case, then it indicates that broadcasters still essentially have a broadcast mindset - otherwise they would be content to simply put their content on the internet and allow viewers to access it via their ISP (whether that's a 4G/5G mobile operator, ADSL or fibre). If there's any room for UHF here, it is conceivable that a broadcaster might want to use the UHF frequencies currently delivering DVB-T Freeview transmissions to deliver a future 5G based service instead. This, however, would still have more in common with our present understanding of broadcast TV than VOD.