The Italian Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy (Mimit), through its Directorate General for Electronic Communication, Broadcasting and Postal Services (DGSCERP), has delayed the publication of tenders for DAB+ licence allocation in Veneto, Tuscany, Lazio, Campania and Apulia.
In six notices published on May 5, DGSCERP said the deadline is now June 30. The delay is linked to a public consultation launched by communications regulator Agcom under Resolution No. 54/25/CONS. The consultation addresses updates to the national radio spectrum plan, specifically the reallocation of frequencies currently assigned to National Television Network No. 12.
If the consultation results in the reallocation of necessary frequencies for these five regions, DGSCERP may avoid the need for comparative selection procedures altogether — a solution long advocated by Italian broadcaster association Aeranti-Corallo.
As part of the consultation, Aeranti-Corallo has asked that additional frequency planning focus initially on these five regions. In 2024, the number of expressions of interest submitted for these areas exceeded the number of DAB+ networks originally planned under Agcom Resolution No. 286/22/CONS.
The association also requested that once the Adriatic-Ionian coordination agreement is finalised, those additional frequencies be used to support a definitive national plan. According to Aeranti-Corallo, this would reduce interference between regions, allow more efficient use of infrastructure, and enable the possibility of differentiated signal feeds — so-called “splitting” — within the same broadcast area.
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