Brussels, 04/05/2015 (Agence Europe) - The member associations of the Wider Spectrum Group defend the interests of workers and employees in the audio-visual and radio sector (UER, AER, APWPT, Broadcast Networks Europe, EBU, European Federation of Journalists and the UNI). On Wednesday 29 April, they drafted at letter to the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, Vice President Andrus Ansip and Commissioner Günther Oettinger, responsible for digital issues. They call for the crucial importance of spectrum radio to be acknowledged for both terrestrial radio broadcasting and mobile cordless communications. The Wider Spectrum Group regrets the lack of attention paid to the recommendations in the Lamy Report in the draft of the “digital single market” strategy to be presented on 6 May. It also calls on the Commission to introduce plans for a stable long-term legal framework so that a sufficient spectrum portion is reserved for terrestrial digital television. It should also be pointed out that radio broadcasters are concerned that the use of the 700 MHz frequency, hitherto exclusively used by hertz radio broadcasters, cordless microphones and mobile cordless communications create damaging interference to terrestrial digital television. The Wider Spectrum Group recently expressed its concerns in this connection as part of the public consultation on the Lamy report (see EUROPE 11294). (Isabelle Lamberty)