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Showdown looming over digital dividend

A big battle between broadcasters and telecommunications providers over digital dividend spectrum may be on the horizon.

The digital dividend is spectrum that will become available when broadcasters migrate from analogue TV to digital TV, a process optimistically set to be concluded by December 2013.

...Telecoms providers are hoping to use the spectrum to roll out high-speed broadband services using technologies such as long-term evolution (LTE), while broadcasters are hoping it will be used for additional multiplexes and increased pay-TV coverage.

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Candice Jones is company writer and media advisor at Cell C (www.cellc.co.za). She used to be deputy editor of www.TechCentral.co.za. Follow her on Twitter at @CandiceJones.
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