[NT Times] The European Commission is poised this week to back a plan that would divert a portion of the valuable broadcast spectrum used by television stations to mobile operators by 2013, in a bid to create an E.U.-wide market for wireless broadband services.
The proposal, a copy of which was obtained by The International Herald Tribune, is part of a package of broadband changes drafted by Neelie Kroes, the European commissioner for telecommunications, that would require the 27 E.U. members to set aside the 800 megahertz frequency band for mobile broadband by Jan. 1, 2013.
The deadline, if adopted by the European Parliament and Council of Ministers, the Parliament’s upper chamber, would increase pressure on countries like France, Britain and Italy to redeploy part of the so-called digital dividend that is being freed up as TV broadcasters convert from analog to more efficient digital transmission.
Europe to Back Plan to Create Pan-European Mobile Market
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