Whats all this about Ofcom selling off the wireless microphone frequencies?
Ofcom have decided to sell some wireless frequency bands to mobile broadband (referred to as the Digital Switch Over or DSO). The problem is that these frequencies are currently being used by wireless microphones and in-ear monitors across the UK. During 2012, any wireless microphones which use channel 69 (790-862MHz) will start to experience interference. It will actually become illegal to use them as this bandwidth will be licensed to someone rather than being free for public use. Ofcom are releasing channel 38 for the public to use instead, but the microphones which use channel 69 will not magically switch over to channel 38 – they have not been configured to work on these frequencies. You’ll find more information about which microphones will be affected by this on our wireless frequency allocation page.
