TV license for mobile phones

This country gets worse, have you ever5 heard anything so flaming
stupid. I am so glad my mobile is just a standard phone, that I make and
recieve calls on and nothing else.


http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?...ass=193&id=578

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:51:46 -0000, ad
wrote:

This country gets worse, have you ever5 heard anything so flaming
stupid. I am so glad my mobile is just a standard phone, that I make and
recieve calls on and nothing else.

And how many people do you think that will affect? Don't you have a TV
licence?
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k...

This country gets worse, have you ever5 heard anything so flaming
stupid. I am so glad my mobile is just a standard phone, that I make and
recieve calls on and nothing else.


http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?...ass=193&id=578

seems to me quite logical -

roman

"ad" wrote in message
k...

This country gets worse, have you ever5 heard anything so flaming
stupid. I am so glad my mobile is just a standard phone, that I make and
recieve calls on and nothing else.


http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?...ass=193&id=578


Why should a PC be the only thing excempt for "non-realtime" receipt of
programs? Why should you need a licence if you where daft enough to watch a
video on demand film by phone on it's tiny little screen?

"Andrew" [email protected] wrote in message
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:51:46 -0000, ad
wrote:

This country gets worse, have you ever5 heard anything so flaming
stupid. I am so glad my mobile is just a standard phone, that I make and
recieve calls on and nothing else.

And how many people do you think that will affect? Don't you have a TV
licence?

I would think most people would be covered in the same way "portable" TV's
are covered by the home's main TV license. Companies who supply their staff
with phones would have to address it. That's easy enough - get managers to
ignore the advice of their young techno IT staff and supply the cheapest
phones possible on the cheapest network!

Thus spaketh ad:
This country gets worse, have you ever5 heard anything so flaming
stupid. I am so glad my mobile is just a standard phone, that I make
and recieve calls on and nothing else.


http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?...ass=193&id=578

Germany are doing the same too, and with PCs.

ad said the following on 19/01/2005 09:51:
This country gets worse, have you ever5 heard anything so flaming
stupid. I am so glad my mobile is just a standard phone, that I make and
recieve calls on and nothing else.


http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?...ass=193&id=578

Would any "Portable devices capable of displaying digital television
services" actually be able to do that in the country or will we start
seeing people with DAT75's mounted on their heads....

Kev

In article ,
[email protected] says...

And how many people do you think that will affect? Don't you have a TV
licence?



You be surprised how many people have not got a T.V and yet may have a
phoneable to do these functions.
I got a T.V license, but even if I did not, it would not affect me
anyway, as I just got a normal mobile.

In article ,
says...


http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?...ass=193&id=578

seems to me quite logical -


Of cause it is, to the BBC and this poxy government. It is just another
stupid thing thought up by a load of over paid dingos in whitehall.

In article ,
says...

http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?...ass=193&id=578


Why should a PC be the only thing excempt for "non-realtime" receipt of
programs? Why should you need a licence if you where daft enough to watch a
video on demand film by phone on it's tiny little screen?



I agree, the T.V license should be for the BBC crap only and that is it,
you should not have to pay it if you do not watch the BBC.

I would love to see how they would catch people with these mobile
phones, they can not even catch people with a T.V that have not got a
license. I know, I did not have one for 6 years, I know someone who have
not had a T.V license for 20 years and still not been caught.