It's the great analogue sale as airwaves go on the block

[Noreen]

It is the second great airwave auction: one that will usher in a new generation of souped-up mobile phones, super-speed broadband and high-definition TV channels, raising billions of pounds for the Treasury in the process. Or so it is hoped.............

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/dec/07/uhf-network-television-switchover-digital

[Rik]

That's a sale that might just fall flat on its face after the 3G fiasco.

[somanyholes]

a sale in which the public's own airwaves are given back to them for a price. How kind 

[kinmel]

That's a sale that might just fall flat on its face after the 3G fiasco.

You could just be right

[Inactive]

a sale in which the public's own airwaves are given back to them for a price. How kind 

Got it in one So'