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THE BIGGER PICTURE
Below: Meet the Council (L-R) — Steve Banks, Lee Spencer, Eric Porter, Graham Gerrard (treasurer), Matt Atwood, Andre Berry, Emma Barwell, Kerry Davies, Dave Bigg, Simon James,
Andy Lenthall (general manager), James Cobb (vice chair), John Jones and John-Henri Mills (secretary). Inset: Gary Cooper-Burrows a.k.a. GCB.
mention the cost of disposing of old kit (ﬁnancial foregone conclusion.
and environmental). The word ‘compensation’ Of course, once
has worked its way into the mix although the we know where we’re
current consultation only mentions “ensuring going and when and
existing authorised and planned authorised users who’s going to pay
of Channels 61, 62 and 69 do not bear extra what to enable us
costs that must reasonably be incurred to clear to get there, PMSE
the spectrum”. spectrum will be
Their estimate of the cost of clearing 61, administered by a new
62 and 69 lies in the range of “about £90- Band Manager.
200m”. Adding ‘ish’ on the end may have led Crossing our desk
to accusations of bet-hedging. As well as their earlier this week was
interpretation of the word ‘reasonably’, it’s an announcement
interesting that they mention ‘existing authorised that Arqiva has
users’ in their undertaking to cover extra costs acquired 100% of
— perhaps compensation will be based on kit shares in JFMG Ltd
price factoring in the amount of time it has been from ITV Network
licensed. Ltd and RadioCentre Ltd. Arqiva provides much
You may remember from the last missive on of the infrastructure behind television, radio THE PSA
this subject that there was mention of a gap in and wireless communications in the UK and it BUSINESS SUPPORT
the 61-69 cleared spectrum. This isn’t mentioned was said that the acquisition underlines JFMG’s HELPLINE
in the current proposal as that gap would continued commitment to serving the PMSE is kindly sponsored by
only exist if the spectrum were to be used for industry.
a service requiring a gap between uplink and The full Ofcom consultation on clearing the
downlink like mobile broadband. Even though it 800MHz band can be found at;
seems that the spectrum is being groomed for www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/800mhz/
sale to operators of such services, it isn’t quite a 800mhz.pdf
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