[Cruisin Marine]

If Ofcom don't have any takers for licences for that band, then they don't have a case they can use in arguing to retain the channels. So they will go to any country's agency that has someone interested. They can't deny channels to someone who would use them, just to keep them empty for someone who won't use them.

That is precisely referring to the point I made, they gave away the frequency with little or no consultation or offering to any parties that may have wanted it, unless someone knows better?
I never heard a whisper until they gave it away, and I am sure most if not all were in the same boat.
It should have been put up to open tender before relinquishing the frequency. This country needs all the help it can get at the moment without the gov. giving things away without open consultation and offerings to the commercial sector.