[access-uk] Re: TV licensing again

  • From: "Barry Hill" <barry.hill3@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 14:36:38 -0000

That is ridiculous.  I do have a smart phone, but I don't watch tv on it.
Same goes for my computer.  So, if I lived on my own, I would be penalised
for having equipment that I didn't use.  Still, I suppose it's the same for
people who only watch Sky and not BBC programmes. Sigh.

Cheers

Barry





-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
john coley
Sent: 09 November 2011 2:22 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: TV licensing again

Hi Barry, maybe you could, unless you had a mobile, in which case you'd be
snookered.
                    John.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry Hill" <barry.hill3@xxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 2:16 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: TV licensing again


> Just to add a little more confusion to the mix, if you don't have a tv 
> with
> the Goodmans, and you don't have a computer, would you be able to just get

> a
> black and white tv licence, and that at half price?
>
> Cheers
>
> Barry
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
> Of
> john coley
> Sent: 09 November 2011 2:06 PM
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] TV licensing again
>
> Hi everybody, a few months or so ago there was a thread regarding the
> Goodmans Smarttalk freeview box, and whether or not a licence was required
> if someone was using the box for sound only, with no TV plugged into it,
> just speakers.
>  The general consensus was that a licence wouldn't be required. Checking 
> on
> the RNIB website seemed to confirm that.
>  As that applies to me I rang the TV licensing authority today to cancel 
> my
> direct debit. I explained the situation to them, and told them what the 
> RNIB
> had to say on the matter, and the guy, having gone away to check came back
> and said that since the box could receive a tv signal at time of broadcast

> I
> would require a licence, whether a TV was connected to the box or not.
>  Further to that he said that if I had a computer in my home I'd require a
> TV licence, since a computer has the potential of receiving TV broadcasts.
>  Since this was completely at odds with what the RNIB said, and what
> posters to this list had said I rang the RNIB to check. I haven't heard 
> back
> from them yet, but it will be interesting to see what they say.
>  According to the guy at TV licensing the only circumstance in which a
> license isn't required would be if the box wasn't able to receive a 
> picture,
> and was a sound only receiver. Mind you, given what the guy said about the
> need for a licence if there was a computer at the address it sounds as if
> everyone needs one, since if computers do so would mobiles, since they 
> also
> have the potential to receive a TV signal.
>                    John.
>
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