WRC-12 paves way for 2nd Digital Dividend
The CEPT Electronic Communcations Committee website indicates that further TV spectrum may be released for a '2nd Digital Dividend'.
The press release says:
Digital Dividend - an ’extended digital dividend’ at 700 MHz, with technical conditions to be agreed at WRC 2015.
Many Arab and African countries at WRC-12 unexpectedly requested an immediate extended digital dividend at 700 MHz. The CEPT delegation considered this request and, together with other regional organisations, reached a compromise on the issue in order to complete all necessary studies for WRC-15.
CEPT believes that raising the status of mobile radio services in another significant part of spectrum below 1 GHz will widen its options in Europe.
CEPT has to deal not only with the growing appetite for mobile broadband services, but also with the pressing issues of rural access to broadband. It will now evaluate how best to enable national regulators and operators, and the end-user, to achieve these objectives efficiently, given the continued importance of terrestrial television in many countries, the development of intelligent technologies such as cognitive radio, and the varied situations across Europe.
The ECC will publish a special edition of its Newsletter later this week, reflecting on the WRC’s main outcomes as they affect the CEPT area, which covers 48 member countries. You can subscribe to the ECC Newsletter from the website’s ECC Newsletters page
http://www.cept.org/ecc/about-ecc/ecc-newsletters
Full CEPT Electronic Communcations Committee press release
http://www.cept.org/ecc/groups/ecc/page/wrc-12-modernises-
worldwide-framework-for-spectrum-use-in-europe
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