Vodafone Germany piloting LTE on freed TV spectrum

If you're the cranky type who's protesting the move from analog to digital TV for some bizarre reason, you probably don't care about LTE, either, so this story won't do much good in convincing you of the benefits of the switch -- but for the rest of you, check it out: Vodafone Germany has partnered with broadcaster WDR to repurpose decommissioned analog TV spectrum for LTE trials. The so-called digital dividend frequencies lie between 790 and 854MHz, a nice little nook to drop some 4G data services in rural areas, which is exactly where Voda intends to use it. Digital TV and LTE? Sounds like a win / win to us.

[ThatGuy Posted May 6th 2009 8:04AM]

digital tv transition is all a conspiracy

[(Unverified) Posted May 6th 2009 11:02AM]

A conspiracy to do what, sell more tv's... in the same way that colour TV did, or that it's causing people to *gasp* be able to sell off the free space generated?

[carcomptoy Posted May 6th 2009 8:06AM]

Wonderful...ANOTHER frequency to separate the world's regions!

[(Unverified) Posted May 6th 2009 1:39PM]

thats what i was thinking..