By Will Sturgeon
Published: Monday 27 March 2006
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Name
Chris Goodman
Location
Fareham Hampshire UK
Occupation
Advisor
Comment
This could well herald the end of the TV licence, that archaic and hugely expensive to collect "tax" (except to Capita who do very well out of it thank you!!). I foresee that bandwidth usage will be charged in some complicated "per channel per second" software accounting at ISPs (?) and paid on to the channel providers. Or perhaps through a prepaid card in a card reader plugged into a USB port.
No??? Mind boggles. But any boggling is better than a TV licence fee.
OK, so I've got my 2Mb/sec, 2Gb/month broadband. H...
Chris Elvidge
So to tie up with another of todays headlines : af...
Simon
And nowhere did I see any mention of the TV licens...
Anonymous
IPTV is a "switched video service" (not a 'downloa...
gc
This could well herald the end of the TV licence, ...
Chris Goodman
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