The European Broadcasting Union let out a visible sigh of relief, by issuing a press release this week welcoming the landmark decision by the ITU’s World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-15) to preserve UHF for TV. The WRC has seen some interesting reversals in the past, where younger countries with less infrastructure, outvoted more advanced societies in order to release spectrum assets to the burgeoning cellular community, and on this occasion it has been averted. Representatives from 150 countries decided this week that UHF spectrum will remain exclusively allocated to terrestrial TV services in ITU Region 1, well into the next decade. Effectively they said “No” to giving up the lower UHF bands from 470MHz to 694 MHz to mobile broadband. A…