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Title: It's the great analogue sale as airwaves go on the block
Post by: Noreen on Dec 07, 2008, 18:13:55

QuoteIt is the second great airwave auction: one that will usher in a new generation of souped-up mobile phones, super-speed broadband and high-definition TV channels, raising billions of pounds for the Treasury in the process. Or so it is hoped.............

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/dec/07/uhf-network-television-switchover-digital

Title: Re: It's the great analogue sale as airwaves go on the block
Post by: Rik on Dec 07, 2008, 18:16:08

That's a sale that might just fall flat on its face after the 3G fiasco.

Title: Re: It's the great analogue sale as airwaves go on the block
Post by: somanyholes on Dec 07, 2008, 18:55:49

a sale in which the public's own airwaves are given back to them for a price. How kind :mad:

Title: Re: It's the great analogue sale as airwaves go on the block
Post by: kinmel on Dec 07, 2008, 19:00:38

Quote from: Rik on Dec 07, 2008, 18:16:08
That's a sale that might just fall flat on its face after the 3G fiasco.

You could just be right

Title: Re: It's the great analogue sale as airwaves go on the block
Post by: Inactive on Dec 08, 2008, 00:03:11

Quote from: somanyholes on Dec 07, 2008, 18:55:49
a sale in which the public's own airwaves are given back to them for a price. How kind :mad:

Got it in one So' >:(

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