Hanna Stjärne is critical of the new conversion that may be costly for television viewers. Photo: Karin Lindström
Last year, the then government to the 700 MHz band should be made available for services other than digital terrestrial television. This means that it opens for mobile telephony and the idea is that mobile coverage across the country will get better. Already two years, in 2017, the change to be completed on schedule.
But the new SVT-manager Hanna Stjärne is critical to the rapid transition which, according to estimates costs SVT SEK 300 million over four years for technical changes and other things.
– We must of course continue to deliver the same services but will increase significantly. If no new decisions taken will be the television fee payers footing the bill in the form of a poorer choice and I think they should be compensated for it, she says.
– There are , which takes full responsibility and ties together the threads of the political decisions taken issue just bandied around.
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Just the tight schedule so costs are rushing even more in height.
– It had been easier if we had more time on us, says Hanna Stjärne.
And it is not just a cost of SVT she points out, there are also those who need to replace their televisions.
– About three million of the eleven million television sets that exist in Sweden are affected by the change, it will be a big change for many of the viewers.
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How will the transition go to is a question that lies at the Swedish Post and Telecom Agency, PTS, with two behalf of the government. One concerns how the 700 MHz band to be used to increase the coverage and the second involves planning the spectrum for terrestrial television after the band goes over March 31, 2017.
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