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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
Hahaha 😆
Some more info given from the BBC Technologist that others may find interesting:
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If it's DTT but not DVB then presumably it would be 5G broadcast. UHF frequencies aren't really useful to mobile companies for 5G, data works much better and faster at higher frequencies. It is useful for "broadcast" whether that is OTA updates or broadcasting in the normal sense as it gets out further. Less bandwidth but covering a wider area, obviously not really useful for lots of mobile "cells" because the bandwidth isn't there.
But it needs a commitment. It's another scenario where Europe has made the commitment but here we have total silence.
Again, for the various scenarios in the report. Things aren't going to happen overnight, decisions need to be made and infrastructure planned. The UK hasn't mass converted to DVB-T2 because no company will invest in the conversion without an assurance that the transmitters won't be turned off a few years hence. There needs to be a return on any investment.
So, it's in the hands of the DCMS an important time for the department to get its act together. But what is happening? suggestions that the DCMS will be abolished and the workload split out to other government departments. Yeah, more sleep walking into the future...