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El Reg reports
With digital reaching its audience targets, the government set a 2017 date for the death of analogue FM radio in [Norway].
[...]However, the Norwegian Local Radio Association disputes the communications ministry's figure, pointing instead to Norwegian Government Statistical Bureau data that "listening to DAB radio is presently limited to 19% on a daily basis."
In an e-mail sent to Vulture South [El Reg's Australian operation], the association says the Minister of Culture's announcement swept up DVB-T and Internet radio to claim that "digital listening" had hit the 50 per cent target that triggers an FM switch-off.
The association also notes that an all-DAB nation would provide a lot less service to motoring tourists without digital radios in their cars. "This proposed change means that most visitors will not be able to listen to national channels or public radio for emergency alerts, traffic or other important information", the group said in a media release e-mailed to El Reg. It claims that a focus on large broadcasters would leave FM investments by community radio stranded.
The local broadcasters are backed by the Progress Party, a partner in the coalition government in Norway, [as well as by] the Greens.
Related: Norway to be First Nation to Switch Off National Analog FM Stations
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29 2015, @05:34PM
No, it is fact: a direct quote of the first sentence from my first post on the subject. You may well be correct in the point you are attempting to address, but that point is not the one I was writing about.
Data loss using analog signals, notably with cellular phones, is typically gradual and graceful: the noise gets louder and louder over time and often allows for last-moment "call you back" sort of messages to be passed before becoming completely unuseable. Digital signals typically go from sounding completely clear to completely dropping chunks of voice data in a blink.