Why ORF is very radically opposed to DAB+? What will be possible consequences? Truths about e-radio weaknesses

When Austria has already decided on the choice of a standard digital radio. Then selected DAB+ as digital radio standard. There was an extremely fierce criticism from Alexander Wrabetz, General Director of ORF which is serving uniterruptible since 2007 which claims that future of radio is only on Internet and the mobile devices, so ORF strongly boycotts DAB+ which according to Wrabetz, it wasn't successful in many European countries. In my opinion, Wrabetz opinions are completely lying and hypocritical. Nevertheless, radio channels of ORF such as Oe1, Radio Tirol, Hitradio Oe3 and FM4 are broadcast on DAB+ on the RAS network in South Tirol, Italy and can be also received in the Italian-Austrian border area.

Possible long-term effects of the DAB+ boycott by ORF

1. Bringing into insolvency via indebtedness. Will be very high maintenance costs of the analogue FM transmitters and even after analogue FM switch-off Internet radio.
2. Weakening the leading position of the radio market.
3. When DAB+ became in near future as mandatory standard in each European Union country, ORF likely to continue to boycott which will lead into EU rights violations, so will be lawsuits against this broadcaster by eg. European Commission.
4. Maybe it mean the death of radio.

Truths about weakness on the e-radio:

1. E-radio is very expensive. The more users are listening to e-radio (Internet/mobile devices) even longer (more listeneing hours), the cost is higher.
2. Internet is controlled, it's not anonymous.
3. Insufficient number of bands (even for 4G and in near future 5G, inc. LTE Broadcast).
4. Would take a lot of space, eg. in Norway radio programs by public service broadcaster would occupy ca. 6 EB [exabyte] (ca. 1.2 TB per capita) and would cost yearly over 200 million USD.
5. Heavy load traffic would slow down the Internet.
6. Wi-Fi/3G/4G consume much more energy on telephones, smartphones and the mobile devices which is a tremendous strain on the battery. For example on LG Stylus 2 smartphone, DAB+ consumes less energy than popular music streaming apps such as Spotify, Google Play Music, Deezer, TuneIn Radio, Sound Cloud, Shazam etc. which has been confirmed by EBU Head of Radio, Graham Dixon.
7. E-radio is threatened by cyberattacks (eg. hacker attacks).

Conclusions:

Firstly, DAB+ is increasingly widespread digital radio standard in Europe as main digital radio platform of the future.
Secondly, dear Mr. Wrabetz, you have no reasons to DAB+ boycott.
Thirdly, I hope that the European Union will boost their efforts and accelerate works on DAB+ as mandatory standard (instead voluntarily) because not only is recommended by the European Broadcasting Union but also by request of Barbara Stanisławczyk-Żyła, former Polish Radio CEO which was appointed by now defunct Polish Minister of State Treasury after amendments on Broadcasting Law of 29 December 1992.