ORIGINAL: bucksman
I recently purchased a 991 with a factory order with my own specification delivered at the beginning March 2013. I specifically wanted a DAB radio module along with a very comprehensive specification for the car.
I was told the DAB option wasn't available and there was no sign of it becoming available in the near future. Then to my total amazement I found out at the beginning of april 2013 that DAB radio was standard on all 911 models only a month after taking delivery of a £93k vehicle.
I agree with a simular post that Porsche were already testing /planning the imminent fitting of this module while their staff were denying its existence saying there was no sign of availability of DAB in the 991.
BY 2015 the most used part of the ICE will be unusable and defunct.
Porsche have to address the issue of retrofit of the DAB module to the 991 as a mattter of urgency.
The final report (written by Digital Radio Working Group) says FM should be switched off between 2017 and 2022. And this switch off is recommended to boost digital radio and improve profit of United Kingdom digital radio IC suppliers. No further details about alternative use were provided [1] This report is only a recommendation and successive Governments have admitted that FM VHF Band II analogue radio would not cease until the "majority" use "digital", so no actual date has ever been agreed. Digital listening figures however consistently include Satellite, DTT and online streaming, not just DAB. In any case there is a commitment to maintain community FM Radio. This means that as long as there are significant numbers of listeners on FM in the United Kingdom no government is likely to take the politically unpopular decision to turn off analogue. Support for the FM Switch Off in the UK is limited. There is a lot of hype from the Government as explained here www.ten-myths-of-dab.co.uk