Communications Minister Stephen Conroy estimates could be worth $1 billion from reselling old spectrum.
The networks' real dilemma, however, is that they urgently need a new business model. And not just for digital multichannel broadcasting, but for the even more threatening world of broadband, with its consumer promise of many different methods of utilising video content via internet protocol television (IPTV).
With seven buying Unwired for $160million it now starting to look like a bargin. Unwired have very larger blocks of spectrum in the 2.3GHz for mobile wireless Wimax and 3.5 fix wireless Wimax. The old TV analog spectrum is in the 2.5GHz also very good for mobile wireless Wimax. As i stated many times analog TV, News papers, mags are old school, Seven need to rollout Wimax and move into the new world of internet. Seven well ahead of the pack with Unwired, Engin and Yahoo7.
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