> I also believe this is primarily driven by money Quite likely. I am not sure exactly when it came to be, but at some point the national broadcaster, NRK, tra

> I also believe this is primarily driven by money Quite likely. I am not sure exactly when it came to be, but at some point the national broadcaster, NRK, transferred maintenance and such of the broadcast network to Telenor. While Telenor is on paper the national telecom company, it has since the late 90s operated as a publically traded company with the government as a major share holder. So what is likely going on is that Telenor has found the older FM equipment expensive to maintain, and thus want to replace it with DAB. Quite likely because they can then extract rent from all the extra channels being broadcast. We had a similar transition to digital TV a few years back, and as best i can tell the analog channels were barely turned off before Telenor started lobbying for the frequency space to be put up for auction aimed towards mobile phone networks. Damn it, Telenor was making noise about replacing the landlines with mobile phones for a while. This because their switches in and around the major cities were getting old. They seem to have dropped the idea though, likely because they noticed they would have to put up a whole lot of new mobile cells to cover all those villages tucked away in narrow valleys. Frankly big business in Norway has gotten very brazen about their milking of the population for all sorts of rents.