Sentence examples for switchover up from inspiring English sources

Much of the focus of the comments following last week's Ofcom PSB proposals has been on the idea of reallocating the BBC's licence fee, especially the £150m "excess licence fee" a year ring-fenced to help fund digital switchover up to 2012.

Not everything went as planned; the 30-minute phone switchover ended up taking hours.

The MoU creates three phases toward switchover: Three scenarios drawn up by the DCMS suggest switchover could begin between 2015 and 2019 either in one step or staged across the regions of the United Kingdom.

The BBC's licence fee deal includes £603m over six years set aside for the digital switchover help scheme up to 2012, when the UK is due to complete the move from analogue to digital terrestrial television.

In the months leading up to the switchover, the city's anxious cable- and dish-less citizens have been turning for answers to the Antenna King.

One key difficulty is the availability of broadcasting spectrum to make local or city TV a reality, since mobile operators are expected to take precedence in an auction of transmission frequencies freed up by digital switchover.

Digital UK was set up to manage switchover from analogue, but after it was completed its shareholders (the BBC, ITV Channel 4 and Arqiva) wanted to have the company as an entity that could play a strategic role, co-ordinating the operations of the digital terrestrial platform in the UK.

The 800MHz slice - which has been freed up by the switchover to digital TV - allows mobile signals to travel over greater distances, making it invaluable in the search to find ways of bringing broadband to rural areas.

Many countries were given much-needed breathing room by the switchover to digital television, which freed up the 800MHz band previously allocated to analogue TV.

The pair were therefore agitating to speed up the timetable for switchover spectrum clearance so they could launch their own 4G networks quicker.

O2 and Vodafone, which will be bidding for spectrum freed up by the digital switchover, were unhappy about the head-start given to EE, which owns the Orange and T-Mobile brands, after Ofcom sanctioned its reuse of 2G spectrum for 4G services this year.