L. Aaron Kaplan's blog

From the EU websites:

Member States shall make the 880-915 MHz and 925-960 MHz frequency bands (the
900 MHz band) available for GSM and UMTS systems, as well as for other
terrestrial systems capable of providing electronic communications services that can
coexist with GSM systems, in accordance with technical implementing measures
adopted pursuant to Decision No 676/2002/EC of the European Parliament and of the
Council of 7 March 2002 on a regulatory framework for radio spectrum policy in the
European Community (Radio Spectrum Decision)*.

The Open Spectrum Alliance gave a response on the digital dividend.

Futurezone.orf.at reported about us! I want to thank the students of the FH Joanneum in Graz who took a loot of time to do background research on this topic.

We submitted our requests at the Austrian "Rat für Forschung und Entwicklung". This is a plattform which tries to engage the public into a dialoge. Topics are the further agenda for research and development. The Rat then makes recommendations to the government.

The people's party (ÖVP) in Austria (most notably Ms. Karin Hackl) is pushing for an open network access model. The ORF (national radio and tv broadcasting network) is reporting that ISPs with lots of empty cable pathways will be forced to open up these cables to competitors for a reasonable fee. We will still have to see what reasonable means but this would fulfill the dream of many small ISPs and might foster in a new era of competition.

Very nice article by Heise , summing up some of the open issues of the digital dividend discussion in the EU. However they quoted to much of the mobile phone industry. Sounds like the mobile phone operators want all of the spectrum but I doubt that they will actually do something with it.... after all... they already have some infrastructure out there. Why invest in something new when UMTS already works for them.