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The licence fee has been used to pay for rural broadband, for S4C, for digital switchover – that is, for aspects of industrial policy.

Caroline Thomson told the House of Lords communications committee inquiry into digital TV and radio switchover that "one of the difficulties of the Asian service is its concept.

He said: "I'm not a big fan of every prisoner having a TV but once you've gone down that line it's inevitable, with digital switchover, that they will get free-to-view channels.

Ford Ennals, the chief executive of Digital Radio UK, the body charged with driving switchover, said that enabling the digital audio broadcasting (DAB) transmitter network to match FM coverage was crucial to the process.

Britain should be at the same stage, but delays to the analogue TV switchover meant that, in 2013, tentative plans to switch off FM and AM radio this year were put on hold.

These figures are the latest to chart what the BPI described as the "digital music switchover" – a shift that helped sink the once-cherished high street brand HMV in January.

But hopes that switchover could happen by 2015 were premature with take-up slower than had been predicted.

However, Ennals said he remained "confident" that switchover would happen in the "near future" and said it was feasible that it still might take place by 2015.

That switchover can be time consuming compared to staying seated and sharing your workspace".

"Now that switchover is complete, Ofcom is looking forward to delivering the 4G auction as the next step in delivering new higher speed mobile broadband services," said Ofcom CEO Ed Richards in a (self-congratulatory) statement.

There's no fixed timing for this, as the government says it will depend on the pace of fiber rollouts and take-up, but it suggests it's "realistic to assume that switchover could happen in the majority of the country by 2030".