Are we getting closer to

[RebelSouls]

A BBC media licence, will we have to have our names passed on to the BBC when we buy a mobile
phone ?

http://www.guardian.c...hone-apps-green-light

[RebelSouls]

http://www.independen...one-apps-2034328.html

[RebelSouls]

http://www.google.com...x_fCOT1xqBdOHmwLuHB7A

[Coobeastie]

No...much in the same way as this doesn't happen when you buy a pc.

[Gromit]

You have a bit of an obsession with the BBC - are you Rupert Murdoch, or a SKY employee?

The question you need to consider, is whether the country needs a state broadcaster, to build quality entertainment and deliver news to it's citizens, and those abroad, or whether you believe that should be left to private Millionaires such as Murdoch or Desmond et al.

I believe we should have a State broadcaster. When I have compared our TV Radio and Internet output with commercial station in countries I have visited abroad, the BBC output is infinitely superior. The BBC is subject to editorial guidelines which other broadcasters are not subject to, the result is higher news values.

If you do believe the country is better off with a State broadcaster than without, then you need to agree it needs to be properly Funded. The licence fee is not the perfect method. I would be happy to see it scrapped, and the money given directly to the BBC from general tax raising.

[spudqueen]

Possibly - but only if you want an all singing, all dancing, cook your tea for you type of phone. Me? I'm quite happy with one that I can make phone calls on!

[237SJ]

I agree the BBC is superior to a lot of foreign broadcasters. The TV I find on my travels is dire - especially in the US where there is a commercial break every 10 minutes. I wonder if it needs an overhaul of funding somehow though. A friend of mine doesn`t have a television so pays no licence fee, but listens to BBC radio in his car and catches up with news and programmes on iplayer. He`s being subsidised by the likes of me. Too many people like him wouldn`t be sustainable.

[Coobeastie]

237sj has your friend had any problems with the supposedly despotic agents of the BBC?

[Sly,Duck]

Get yourself a Freeview Box Al Jazeera are on channel 58 every evening 6pm -11pm.
Hear the news, the truth, not censored from a pile of lefty yoghurt knitting scrotums.

[237SJ]

Coob, my friend got loads of letters from the TV licencing people and just ignored them. He didn`t even see why he had to phone to tell them he had no TV because it was a premium no. Evenually he did ring. I always wondered how they know you have a TV, but they don`t know. They just assume every address has one and hastle you for the licence fee.
Sly-Duck I agree. I think Al-Jazeera a good