Here's a thought. Analogue TV channels are 6 MHz wide each. That is one more than a 3G W-CDMA channel. If they need three or four channels to cover a country, that's 18 or 24 MHz.
Now the NTC is licensing out 3G licenses with a starting price of 40-ish Billion for a 10 MHz channel for 15 years. Channel 3 is paying 2.4 billion for a ten year extension.
Comparing apples and oranges? Hardly. 700 MHz is used for both 4G standards, LTE and WiMAX. How about a compromise? There is a big difference between 2 billion and 80 billion. How about meeting somewhere in the middle, say pay 40 billion and re-launch Channel 3 as an IPTV over LTE (or WiMAX) as a added bonus to this plan, un-wire up the entire country with wireless broadband while they are at it.
Crazy idea? QB in Cambodia today has IPTV over 3G since last year. 700 MHz will be the LTE frequency of choice for the US of A hence economies of scale will be there.
Like a certain red-panties-advocating madman said yesterday, the world has changed and some people are still stuck in the past. Thinking out of the box could be a win-win situation for all.
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