Scrap looms over radio waves

Europe’s leading mobile phone operators on Monday set themselves on a collision course with television broadcasters by making a pitch to secure a big chunk of the “digital dividend” radio ­spectrum. A report commissioned by Vodafone, Telefonica and Orange calls for the mobile operators to be allocated 25 per cent of the spectrum, or radio waves, made available by the switchover from analog to digital television. The report, written by Spectrum Value Partners, a consulting firm, claims that giving mobile operators access to the digital dividend spectrum could be worth up to €165bn ($255bn, £129bn) to consumers and companies. Auctions of the ultra high frequency spectrum previously used for analog television could also raise billions of euros for European governments.
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