SWITCHING off Britain’s analogue television network threatens to silence its theatres, concert halls and TV studios.
After 2006, the government plans to raise billions of pounds by auctioning licences to use the UHF frequencies currently occupied by analogue TV transmissions. Two years ago it made £22 billion when it sold off a range of microwave frequencies to phone companies for their “next generation” 3G services. The buyers in the next round could be mobile phone service providers who want to feed video into 3G handsets.
But television isn’t the only service that transmits on these UHF frequencies. Every radio mike…
