Last year the Government agreed revised arrangements as provided for in the Broadcasting Act, 2001, for the introduction of digital terrestrial television – DTT – in Ireland. These revised arrangements provide that the DTT platform will be established by two separate but inter-linked transactions: (a) the separation out and sale by RTE of the existing RTE transmission network as a going concern and subject to RTE being able to retain a shareholding of up to 28% in the new entity; and (b) the selection of the DTT multiplex company, the DTT retail business, to be licensed by the Office of the Director of Telecommunications Regulation.