It’s not going to be an easy task - the consideration of a power increase in Canberra would be throwing out a lot of the initial expectations for how low power they could get away with in many other regional areas.
The initial plan was lots of lower power transmitters in SFNs covering the license areas. Seems like that isn’t being proposed in Canberra, but the problem is going to keep coming up, with the supposed next market, the Gold Coast, being very problematic for coverage.
It’s odd to be talking about ‘next mover’ channel plans anyway - the biggest issue is that they need to plan how to deal with everything that’s left over after the ‘next mover’ areas.
That’s the biggest hold up for the Gold Coast - you need to plan basically half of NSW and southern Queensland just to choose an appropriate frequency and power level to run the Gold Coast services on, or you risk getting 5 years down the track and finding that there’s nowhere to put DAB somewhere like Tamworth.