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Truckers' radio safe in your bands, says Lord Young
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• Fears that the Government plans to switch the Band III radio spectrum from mobile radio use to television have been allayed by Trade and Industry Secretary Lord Young.
In a written answer in the Lords, Young said only a restricted television service could be achieved, and then only with expensive disruption of mobile radio services and the risk of interference.
Operators of Band III services have been pushing hard recently to safeguard the radio spectrum first awarded to them in 1985. The first Band III services were launched at the end of last year.
1=1 Band Three Radio, one of two national Band III providers, claims it now has 3,000 subscribers to its mobile radio network — just six months after the service was launched.
Callum Mackie, the company's sales and marketing director, says: "We are activating over 200 new subscribers every week." He claims that Band Three's services now cover around 60% of the population spread of the UK.