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

By Candice Jones: @candicejones

8 Apr 2011

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.

Read the full story on www.TechCentral.co.za.

About Candice Jones: @candicejones

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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