Ofcom, the UK communications regulator, this week moved to allay fears that public service broadcasters will lose out when freed-up broadcast spectrum is auctioned after analogue switch-off. Stephen Carter, Ofcom chief executive, said that future spectrum auctions would not leave empty-handed the established public service broadcasters: the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, S4C, Five and Teletext. "All public-service broadcasters will get reallocated spectrum," Carter told a House of Commons hearing on Ofcom's annual plan for 2006-07. "In some instances that will be at zero cost, and in some instances that will be with an administrative cost."
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