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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Some countries want to switch off terrestrial broadcasting, and if a majority at the 2023 conference agree, we will have to comply with that.
I believe the issue relating to 5G is concerned with interference from terrestrial TV signals.
However, the public reaction to any such proposal to switch off terrestrial TV may dissuade the Conference members from going down that route.
https://rxtvinfo.com/2023/over-20000...save-freeview/
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Delegates at the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-23) will make binding decisions on whether frequencies currently used for terrestrial TV in the UK and Europe must be surrendered for use by mobile network operators. In the UK, this affects Freeview, in the Republic of Ireland, Saorview. |
Helpfully, the European Broadcast Union and African Telecommunications Union have both agreed on a no-change position for WRC-23. The chances of any meaningful change happening in Europe are virtually zero.
https://tech.ebu.ch/news/2023/08/afr...band-at-wrc-23.
There's no evidence that 5G coverage would be improved by farming off even more of the bandwidth below 700 MHz. The limitation is the lack of masts using the existing frequency allocation.
As Governments pivot towards satellite broadband as the answer for rural connectivity issues the demand to reallocate these frequencies will be further reduced as we hit the 2030s.