Yearly TV Licence? ...Really?

[kempermentor]

> Marrion:
> ...I think the change is complicated for people on 
> very fixed incomes who have no desire (or means)to go to cable or to 
> buy a new TV and I guess I wonder how necessary it is to have "better" 
> Tv over the air when anybody who cares about "better" Tv is  already 
> getting it through cable.


Kemper now:
The government could care less about you or me receiving 'better' tv.

Again, the US government is using it to free up the (radio?) spectrum
in order to make communication easier for first responders (for public
safety).  

Of course, the switch is being done across the world which makes the
conspiratorist in me wary.  But the rationalist in me is relaxed.
Kemper