UK Digital Minister Ed Vaizey's address to the WorldDAB Assembly
Digital radio – whether DAB or DAB+ is a huge opportunity for the radio industry and for radio listeners. If radio is to compete in a fast moving multi-media digital landscape then it must have greater flexibility to grow, innovate and engage with its audience, and in this the limits of analogue, as a distribution platform for radio, are all too evident. AM spectrum is no longer useful. FM spectrum is now full and it simply does not have the capacity to deliver the range of services and functions that digital can.
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