DAB in Youtube

Have a look at this video:

That clip is from 1997. There were people who actually thought it might
work. Ten years later we know it only works a bit in the UK, a little
bit in Denmark and nowhere else.

gr, hwh

Back then they must have thought that DAB would have the whole of band III.

When did private mobile begin using the rest of Band III?

Certainly before 1995. I worked for a company that used National Band 3

So they can't say that they weren't aware of the spectrum situation then.

I suppose not. Although I believe NB3 is now defunct, as is the Cognito
mobile data network which also used Band 3. You'll probably find a lot
of it is still allocated to "military" use.

From memory PMR + other stuff took over after the last BBC/IBA transmitter
was switched off; but the broadcasters always took it to be a temporary
measure as the PMR services have to operate on a non-interference basis
with Europe which still makes use of Band III for television.

There has been much confusion over the years and as I understood it
some in the powers that be in charge at the BBC/IBA/RA ect thought band III
would rightly return to broadcasting because of the problem with Europe.

It only in the past 10 years I feel the broadcasters and other users have
started to understand that spectrum is used to make money for the government,
before it was very much given.

trunked radio. You got a minute at a time before you had to restart the
session.

David Witherow still around.

"After retiring from the BBC in 1994, David Witherow worked as a
broadcasting consultant concentrating on the implementation of Digital Audio
Broadcasting (DAB)."

So he's another one to add to the DAB Hall of Shame then. And with regards
to this:

"He was elected the first President of the World DAB Forum in October 1995,
and in 2000 received WorldDAB's Selemark Award for Exceptional Services to
DAB."

it seems that this award is given to people who've done the most possible
damage to the audio quality on DAB - I know that Quentin Howard and Philip
Laven have been awarded it in the past.