GRRRR ... if its to be believed!

[Ann]

http://www.dailymail....ork-interference.html

[Anngel123]

Oh dear! I suppose we will have to get Sky finally. How annoying.

[mike11111]

I agree, but am afraid I must reserve judgement until the Daily Mail expert, AOG,
has digested this and given us his considered opinion.

[Ann]

LOL :))

[ChuckFickens]

Scaremongering by the mail again.

As normal they have converted a lot of mights, ifs and possibles into definites. they've failed to acknowledge that even if a household is affected the majority of them will simply need to fit a filter, that will be supplied for free, to the back of the TV or freeview box so no costs involved at all.

The fact they referred to freeview as a cable service in the article gives some idea of the level of technical knowledge the author of the article has, which is probably somewhere in line with an aardvark!

The mail is really not the place to read anything technical, their business is selling papers, not informing people of the truth about anything.

[dotty.]

that is one of the daftest and misleading articles i have read in ages, who pays for Freeview anyway? it says it will be a cost to taxpayers, what does that mean? non-taxpayers will get free filters fitted?

[ChuckFickens]

Well it will cost tax payers because of the £180m the government have put aside to deal with any possible problems, but in the grand scheme of things that really isn't anything!

It's misleading because the mail have taken the actual details of up to 2million people might be affected of which a small percentage would need to have mast head filters fitted at a cost to themselves and changed it to millions of people will be affected and will have to install mast head filters at a cost to themselves.

A small percentage of 2million is vastly different to millions of people.

[marval]

I think I will wait and see. I don't see why I should pay.

[venator]

Freeview will act to protect its market.

Just as the price of Freeview boxes has fallen, and many TV sets have it built in, so there will be a cheap and easy plug in.

Of course, as everyone says, this doesn't sell newspapers...

[Ann]

Its articles like this which make the DM look very silly, hence my statement "if its to be believed!"

[jake-the-peg]

Typical DM - Oh the hard pressed taxpayer will pay or millions of people will have to shell out


If I might take you back to the auction of the 3G bandwidth - that netted the Treasury £22 Billion

With the 4G auction coming up I think they can put a bit of that aside to fix any technical problems without the DM and the Taxpayers alliance and all the other usual suspects screaming the house down
With the 4G auction this year the Government

[ChuckFickens]

I'd be curious to see how many comments complaining about it on the article where posted from devices like iPads using 3G connections. :)