Re: [Hampshire] OT:What? 6 years to analogue radio off

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Author: Chris Aitken
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] OT:What? 6 years to analogue radio off
IIRC Germany are binning DAB due to poor uptake and quality.
That said, most of the cars I've hired in Germany have had DAB radios in them.


On 6/17/09, Tim <xendistar@???> wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 June 2009 23:03:31 trotter wrote:
>> At 22:44 17/06/2009, you wrote:
>> >On Wednesday 17 June 2009 22:28:10 trotter wrote:
>> > > Hello,
>> > >
>> > > I heard this on radio 4 news yesterday.
>> > > I have not heard it anywhere else though and was wondering if anyone
>> > > else had come across it?
>> > >
>> > > Unfortunately DAB radio is pretty poor using old musicam mp2 leaving
>> > > FM
>> > > sounding better than the newer technology.
>> > >
>> > > Martin N
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Owner of the bwfc yahoogroup and Co-Moderator of MiniDisc and
>> > > amithlonopen yahoo groups.
>> >
>> >Its correct, I downloaded the 245 page Digital Britain report today
>> >but have not
>> >got very far into reading it yet.
>> >
>> >Not very impressed with the 50p tax on phone lines though
>>
>> Its 50p on each landline....
>> so you can guess what happens next ......we all switch to mobile only to
>> avoid it!
>>
>> duh!
>>
>> Martin N
>>
>>
>> Owner of the bwfc yahoogroup and Co-Moderator of MiniDisc and
>> amithlonopen yahoo groups.
>
> Reports suggest that the 50p will raise £150m but they require £3bn for the
> broadband project, so not sure where the rest of the cash is coming from.
>
> Just wonder if the telecoms companies will give us a refund on our bills
> once
> they start raking in the profits from the public funded exchange and
> infrastructure upgrades?
>
> Tim
>
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