§ Mr. Richard Pageasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what additional radio spectrum can be made available for land mobile services.
§ Mr. Alexander Fletcher10 additional VHF radio channels are to be made available to the land mobile radio 355W service immediately throughout the United Kingdom. In the London area there will be a total of 20 additional channels available.
Applications are being invited from new and existing operators to use the channels for common base stations and message handling services. In London a minimum of 10 channels will be assigned singly, either for new services or for additions to existing services. A maximum of 2 new 5-channel trunked services will be licensed in any area.