[ NNSquad ] Re: NAB is serious about mandating FM radios in every cell phone

[trotter <m.nuttall@ukonline.co.uk>]

At 10:46 26/08/2010, you wrote:
> In Europe there is a very strong movement to replace FM with DAB 
> (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Broadcasting>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Broadcasting). 
> There are already some pilots in Spain, which btw, has shut down its 
> public broadcast analog TV signals and replaced it with digital TV 
> broadcast early this year 
> (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_in_Spain>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_in_Spain).


Well the UK has moved backwards from digital radio adoption and the 
analogue fm switch off
with the previous target date of 2015 now seen as very unlikely with 
the change of government
here.

I did not know that Spain had some digital radio plans, as I remember 
it only Finland( or another
Scandinavian country) had DAB while Germany has dab+ which is an 
incompatible but superior
system that sadly the BBC have deemed we cannot have it.

> I think that (unfortunately) this will also happen to FM, as the 
> urge to clear/clean/free the radio spectrum has not disappeared from 
> legislators at the EU (apart from several other motivations, the 
> need to sell more wavelength licences, along with the fact that it 
> is easier to monitor and control digital contents when compared to 
> analog, are the two key motivators, IMHO).


I very much doubt it will happen for a long time since only 1% of new 
cars in the uk
have digital radios fitted and that is their biggest market for listeners.


Martin N

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