The Netherlands is the latest European country to debate the future of DTT and while Telco KPN has insisted that its Digitenne DTT service, complementing its IPTV offering, will continue after 2017, it admitted that it was being used increasingly just for second TVs in homes without a network to connect to the primary service. Post 2017 the Netherlands is likely to lose what was once one of the most successful paid DTT services in the world. All of this has its roots in the World Radio Spectrum Conference in 2012. The future of DTT in Europe looked bright until the surprise decision taken at that conference to allocate a second digital dividend to mobile in the 700 MHz band…