Commercial and Market Potential

In Europe, the economic potential and market value arising from a wise management of the digital dividend (cleared spectrum + TV white space), has attracted many studies in the past few years. The main studied use cases include DTT, broadcast mobile TV, commercial wireless broadband services, wireless broadband services for public protection and disaster relief (PPDR), services ancillary to broadcasting and program making, and cognitive technologies. With the rapid growth of mobile data demand, it is often seen that operators need more spectrum to satisfy their users with specific requirements such as coverage, bandwidth, quality of service (QoS), service duration, and price. There is always a concern from the primary users who wants to sell their spectrum; the concern is whether or not the potential buyers will use their acquired spectrum to provide a service competing with the sellers or if the buyers will introduce distortion to the sellers.