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Re:Norway switches off FM radio, but a station is defying go... by bramzistor on Friday December 15, 2017 @12:07PM (#15933215)
Except here in Belgium, they already switched off DAB in favour of DAB+. Now everyone can go out and buy a new radio again.

Meanwhile, they also rally against planned obsolescence. How's that going to work?

(luckely, they haven't yet switched of FM, that's scheduled for 2020)

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Re:Norway switches off FM radio, but a station is defying go... by lb1lf on Friday December 15, 2017 @02:31PM (#15934351)
Same story in Norway - first they tried very hard to push DAB receivers, and I, being a firm believer in radio over TV for mass communication duly bought DAB radios for the car, kitchen, bathroom, living room hi-fi - then they (in fairness, very sensibly) switched to DAB+. Off to ye olde electronics shoppe I went again.

I wonder how long DAB+ will last; I expect that sooner rather than later it will be scrapped for streaming via cellular networks - because doing so will be cheaper still than operating a DAB network.

Sigh.

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