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Broadcast Australia welcomes the announcement encouraging the use of datacasting spectrum |
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06 December 2002 Broadcast Australia today welcomed the announcement by the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator the Hon Richard Alston, encouraging the use of datacasting spectrum for the trialling of new content services in metropolitan and regional Australia. Broadcast Australia today welcomed the announcement by the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator the Hon Richard Alston, encouraging the use of datacasting spectrum for the trialling of new content services in metropolitan and regional Australia. Broadcast Australia is a key stakeholder in the future of digital television services in Australia and has consistently expressed its views in support of the roll-out of new digital services. Broadcast Australia will seriously investigate the opportunities presented by this announcement in relation to both datacasting trials in metropolitan areas and the possibility of delivering internet services to regional Australia via datacasting spectrum. Background Broadcast Australia is Australia’s leading broadcast transmission services company. It owns and operates a national network of terrestrial transmission infrastructure comprising approximately 600 sites. The major customers of Broadcast Australia are the national broadcasters, ABC and SBS, for whom the company provides analogue and digital transmission services. Broadcast Australia also provides services to a range of commercial and community broadcasters as well as telecommunications companies. Broadcast Australia is owned by Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group, a publicly listed group (ASX Code: MCG). Further background is available at: For further information, please contact:
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