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Originally Posted by pip08456
All the more reason to move to streaming. Auction off the UHF spectrum and use the money to provide everyone in the UK access to a connection that will support streaming of content at a reasonable price (we ain't talking 200mb connections here, just enough so they can still watch Corry.Emmerdale, Eastenders, big Brother and all the other important programmes of that ilk!)
Why pay money to satellite providers when the internet will provide the same if not more?
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Money's already being paid to satellite providers, the extra substantial cost is in buying and fitting dishes and receivers.
This broadband solution sounds a preferable solution to me but at the moment there's parts of the country that don't receive a good enough speed but in the future that may work. Building upon your idea, a more controversial solution might be to:
- sell off the spectrum and use it to fund the BBC enabling the licence fee to be abolished and a broadband subsidy paid to the over 80s.
- allow people the choice of subscribing to a basic broadband service that will include access to PSB TV services.
Only issues are that I'm not sure how long the spectrum auction would fund the BBC for and how its long-term funding would be tackled.