All posts by Briantist
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john Martin: One should be wary of the assumption that your own personal feeling don't match what happens in the wider world.
One reason for the 4G requirements is to take pressure of 2G/3G for voice call use. 2G/3G technology is synchronous, and very suitable for voice calls.
4G (like the internet) is asynchronous. 4G phones still use GSM for voice.
4G isn't just phones, as I'm sure you're aware. 4G is tablets, USB-dongles, laptops, routers and any number of devices in the "internet of things".
According to Internet Access - Households and Individuals, 2013 - ONS
"In 2013, 21 million households (83%) had Internet access in 2013 ... 36 million adults (73%) in Great Britain accessed the Internet every day, 20 million more than in 2006, when directly comparable records began. "
So, your "Not everyone" is logically true - 17% of people don't use the internet - but all the evidence shows that is on a downward trend.
"But if you are in cahoots with the big companies of course they want you to use the internet even more. "
I don't know who that's aimed at. Not me, I hope.
Of course Sky want to get rid of Freeview (and Freesat and Netflix) it's "in their nature" as per The Scorpion and the Frog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .
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Ian: the house of lords proposals were that everyone would get a level of free internet access to compensate for the loss of Freeview.
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john martin: If you read the House of Lords report, they are proposing that everyone in the UK will be entitled to get a free basic broadband service, one that would be able to provide the streaming of the public service (and other) channels.
To get this "free broadband" you would simply have to have - a TV Licence.
Given the proposal is for the mid 2020, this might not be such a bad idea.
Moore's Law (what you get double for the same price every 18 months) operating for another 12 years (where speed will have doubled and doubled and doubled and doubled and doubled and doubled and doubled and doubled, or multiply by 256) will render what we have today in terms of broadband bandwidth and speed quite trivial.
It would make a lot of sense for EVERYONE to have some level of free broadband FOR FREE. It would be very useful from a health point of view and for keeping central and local government costs down.
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Steve P: It's not my diagram, it's Ofcom's// GfK NOP consumer research's - http://stakeholders.ofcom….pdf page 7
The report doesn't have a "free-to-view digital satellite households" breakdown on multiple platforms, just Pay-sat, Freeview and Cable.
Freesat-from-Sky, Freesat and non-branded satellite reception are lumped together as "free-to-view digital satellite households". I called it Freesat to make it clearer on a simple diagram.
You've been reading 9 weird ways that the weather will actually stop you watching free TV | About UK Free TV | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice I see.
The Internet was specifically designed to work if hit by a nuclear attack (it's peer to peer and decentralised), so it will continue to work if satellite are taken out as it a terrestrial network (although there is a "solar-system compatible IP" out there too).
Non-domestic satellite reception dishes can be provided with heating and other de-icing technology.
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KMJ,Derby:" Should there be a duplicate service, at least for the PSB channels, from a different orbital position, "
There already is! Intelsat 907 at 27.5°W
Intelsat 907 at 27.5°W - LyngSat 11495MHz Vertocal tranponder 74
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john Martin: I'm not sure why you say "the tv licence will have gone up by at least 20 percent" given that it has fallen in real terms (having been frozen in cash terms) for six years... BBC licence fee held at 145.50 until 2016 | News headlines | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice
Of couse nothing's free: you pay towards ITV (and all the ad-supported channels) even if you never watch it - see 14 reasons why you should stop moaning about paying the TV Licence every day | About UK Free TV | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice
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Ian: The point being, as I'm sure you understand, is that the fault in your local exchange didn't effect anyone else. The network self-heals in microseconds: almost all faults are unseen.
Of course there are balances to be struck in the "replace free broadcast TV with free IP plans".
I can personally see that there would be huge groups of people who would be better off with interactive communications than just having the TV to watch.
The channels have been on Intelsat 907 since at least 19 April 2009.
Intelsat 907 at 27.5°W - LyngSat
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Thursday 23 January 2014 2:21PM
Louise Hill: can you please see the message above yours?