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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2022-12-08 12:00 pm
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[personal profile] bens_dad 2022-12-08 12:30 pm (UTC)(link)
If the licence fee becomes optional but required for viewing the BBC will be no different from other streaming services and will lose a lot of subscribers - O(half the population).

Who is going to invest in the bandwidth for wireless internet throughout every A road, never mind every country lane ?
Bye-bye in car radio.

Though if someone *is* prepared to put 5G *with multicast IP* (so that the bandwidth on motorways isn't all taken up with 10K copies of the same radio channel) and/or a national wifi service (like Slovenia) with >95% coverage by area, great.
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[personal profile] mellowtigger 2022-12-09 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
The best "money" (/capitalist corruption) question for this change is, "Who's getting paid for the newly available spectrum, and what is the buyer doing with it?" The many social downsides are totally irrelevant to whoever is leveraging their own wealth from the change.