UK’s independent communications regulator Ofcom has revealed plans to make new spectrum available to the country\'s networks to improve mobile broadband services, without affecting existing free-to-air digital terrestrial TV services, Pocket-lint.com reports.

Its proposals have been drawn up to avoid another countrywide digital switchover - a blessing as the last one took years to complete.

There is a limited supply of spectrum Ofcom has control over and can therefore allocate to different uses and services. Until the ultra high band frequencies are enabled, everybody has to fit in the same, existing wireless infrastructure.

So Ofcom\'s challenge was to find a way to allow networks to offer faster and cheaper mobile Internet to their customers, while ensuring that digital TV signals are not adversely affected.