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The Benefits of Digital Dividend
The term “Digital Dividend” usually refers to the spectrum released by the switchover from analog to digital TV broadcasting. Digital dividend spectrum is ideally suited to providing cost-effective mobile and broadband wireless services representing a significant and important asset for a country’s economic and social development. Freeing up globally harmonized spectrum for mobility offers the potential for economies of scale for the production of mobile devices, as well as for easing international roaming.
This 4G Americas white paper outlines the important spectrum harmonization decisions regulators are facing regarding the Digital Divided 700 MHz spectrum in the Americas region.