The Swiss government’s decision to allow the country’s public broadcaster SRG to cease digital terrestrial transmissions at the end of 2019 has naturally prompted speculation that other countries will follow, especially in Europe. But the Swiss move can be seen as a premature sunset for DTT which will survive for well over a decade in countries where it is popular and well established, including the country’s immediate neighbors Austria and Germany. Those two countries have recently reaffirmed their commitment to digital terrestrial as they migrate to the more advanced and higher capacity second generation DVB-T2, which generated a bonanza in set top sales there during 2017. The immediate fate of DTT in a given country then depends largely on its…