Comments on: Analogue Switch-Off

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 13 May 2006 10:01:18 +0000

When buying a new car how many these days are being sold with a digital radio, I suspect that we will all have to purchase additional equipment at vastly extortionate prices but nobody from the car industry is saying anything......

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 18:41:10 +0000

Your right, I'm chicken egging there...

But after the fiasco of the last auction of chunks of the radio spectrum (er, probably not the right words) I'd be surprised if the mobile companies would be so willing to punt millions in the government's direction.

I hope it's ten years off, at least - I'm not prepared to face a world without 'proper' radio. Listening to the cricket without LW crackle and pop just wouldn't be right, for one thing...

By: Stephen Newton

Stephen Newton — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 14:03:59 +0000

Perhaps you're forgetting how much that bandwidth can be auctioned off for? And it won't be widely adopted until the bandwidth is available, which makes yours a bit of a chicken and egg argument.

It's got to be at least 10 years off though, don't you think?

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 12:20:17 +0000

That's my point - freeing up a bit of bandwidth for a few early adopters at the expense of tens of millions of radio users just seems plain stupid.

By: Stephen Newton

Stephen Newton — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 17:10:14 +0000

'cos we need to bandwith for 3G mobile phones etc.