ASO heralds new dawn for digital TV broadcasting

There are calls for MCMC to offer 45MHz instead of 40MHz of the 700MHz band

As the government inches closer to switching off the analogue television system, telecommunications operators are increasingly excited about the move.

This is because the “analogue switch off” (ASO), where the same data will move into a digital network freeing up certain airwaves, enables the government to refarm out the important swathe of the 700MHz spectrum.