If communications regulator OFCOM has its way, blanket transmission of digital signals to rural areas may soon make available digital TV broadband at a very low cost to the United Kingdom’s most outlying areas. As the digital changeover continues to span to full fruition throughout the UK, availability of bandwidth known as white space has made accessible frequencies for terrestrial transmission of digital signals received by satellite rebroadcast. To that end, OFCOM is considering allowing implementation of new broadband enhancing technologies with the specific intent of sending quality high speed telecommunications into remote areas of the United Kingdom.
Large cable TV providers such as Virgin Media may soon find themselves competing for access to these fragmented frequencies as a means of enlisting new customers who are as yet undecided between the two existing fiber optic and copper cable networks. At present the best low cost TV packages seem to be only in cities where competition has forced TV providers to lower prices. Broadband Choices, one of only three OFCOM certified broadband review web sites in the United Kingdom is already making plans to include options for these specialized rural broadband and TV packages within their existing system for broadband comparison. At present, United Kingdom residents can easily compare options for all kinds of communications packaging simply by using the helpful digital TV price and service comparison website DigitalChoices.co.uk. Simply by entering your post code into the search box type comparison tool you can easily create a report showing all of the companies presently serving your home address as well as pricing and features available from them.