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So, £103 x 30m taxpayers = £3,090m + £500m for over-75s. Only a little short of £4bn. Might have to raise the level to £117 to get the full (current) amount.
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steve p: That is not under consideration here. This is a simple levy on all households as it is simple to use BBC services without having a TV at all.
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According to Medium wave transmitters turned off in Berkshire | RadioToday Radio has been on 1431KHz from Manor Farm since last March, when it took over the old Gold frequencies on medium wave across the country. It's understood the private owner of the land where Arqiva's transmitter is wanted the site back for other use.Absolute Radio was also broadcast from the transmitter site it's 1233 AM service has also been turned off this weekend. "
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Accroding to Medium wave transmitters turned off in Berkshire | RadioToday Radio was also broadcast from the transmitter site it's 1233 AM service has also been turned off this weekend. "
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Details from Medium wave transmitters turned off in Berkshire | RadioToday say"At the same time, Global has turned off the other AM transmitter broadcasting Smooth Thames Valley to Newbury on 1485KHz. Both 1485 and 1431 have been removed from the How To Listen section of the Smooth Radio website."
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Jane Lennie: There are some things to look at on the Single frequency interference page.
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michael: I can't really see that working. Given that I, for example have Hyperoptic 1000Mbps at home and 4G though Three's 4G, how on earth would Newham council know that?
Ian: Once again, if you have progressive taxation - Progressive tax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - people pay according to what they have, not what they get.
Let us remind outselves at this point that the new Minister, Mr Whittindale has described what you want as "a poll tax". Scrap TV Poll Tax and some DRM - top Tory .
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Ian: I'm not sure if I have ever claimed 4G is everywhere... It not rolled out yet so I'm not sure why I would say it.I was just saying to michael that it would be .. Expensive .. To calculate the broadband speed to a property because there's so many ways to do it. I just meant as an example that I have two non ADSL services.
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Darren: Thanks for that. Let me answer your points.
As this is a replacement for the TV Licence, the answer to the first question is "no". This is because people in receipt of state benefits already at least nominally get money to pay the TV Licence. This new "French" system changes the payment to being collected by TV Licensing to your local council, so you wouldn't expect to get it for free unless you are over 75 (as is the case at the moment).
No one at all would be exempt from this system. The over 75 would have their payment provided by the government, but this isn't an exemption. Every household pays. All of them.
There isn't a way of opting out. Just as there in no way of opting out of paying other taxes!
There isn't such thing as a "bedroom tax", that's just a political construct.
Yes, if you don't pay a tax you will be breaking the law. That's the way it is, as they say.
The BBC doesn't want to get into the subscription business with iPlayer or anything. Two reasons: it's a universal service as everyone pays, and the vast cost of denying 4% of the population not to say the inconvenience to the other 96% - isn't worth it. It would double what everyone has to pay.
It's easy to show different services outside the UK, a totally different matter to deal with who should be denied access in the UK.
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Saturday 16 May 2015 11:20PM
Here's the breakdown on the UK population using File:Population pyramid for England using 2011 census data.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and https://www.gov.uk/govern…age.