SABC wants South Africans to pay TV Licence fees for your smartphone

[Jamie McKane]

SABC wants South Africans to pay TV Licence fees for your smartphone

The SABC is pushing for new regulations that would require South African cellphone users to pay TV Licence fees.

Speaking in an interview with MyBroadband, SABC Head of TV Licences Sylvia Tladi confirmed the SABC's recent request for new regulations regarding TV Licences.

 

[My_King]

Luckily my S4 does not have a FM receiver or coaxial input

 

[supersunbird]

I rarely even watch youtube on my phone, why should I require a TV license?

 

[Matt91]

Lol goodluck enforcing that, I guarantee I won't pay you SABC cnuts a cent for having a cellphone.

 

[xera]

So then the networks should be charged an additional TV broadcasting fee?

 

[John Tempus]

Lol goodluck enforcing that, I guarantee I won't pay you SABC cnuts a cent for having a cellphone.

The worry is that they will then employ a tattle incentive where neighbors would report each other for financial incentive.

This would be a huge income chase if 40 million+ mobile devices have to have a SABC license, we will end up with an SABC Gestapo.

It wrecked my brain that they can so brazenly claim its within their right to even consider a charge like this. Eventually it will come down to the SABC owns internet access in SA, anyone with internet access at a minimum need an SABC license and then every additionally device you might have that could get any sort of streaming would need a bolt on license. This will never end.

 

[SlinkyMike]

Next headline:

SABC wants South Africans to pay TV Licence fees for looking at things

 

[Death]

They must be able to prove i am watching something they provide - without having access to my physical device. Until then, they can f off. Plus - SABC does NOT even provide a streaming service. If they did, i'm sure you'd have to have a login credential. If i'm not a registered user (nor will I ever be) i do not require a license. SABC does not provide any service towards giving me access to Internet or the contents there of. SABC does not have a hand in ANY of my business and should be put in it's place or we burn every one of their buildings to the ground.

Just because i have the ability to steal/rape/murder does not mean I am one of these things. Same goes for devices. Just because they have the ability - doesn't mean it's being used. The Taxpayers are extremely gatvol of being exploited for all SOE that are corrupt from top to bottom and generate ZERO positive impact to the country and just heavier and heavier burdens on it's people every day they are allowed to "operate".

/rant

 

[TofuMofu]

lol...what are these idiots injecting into their arms?

 

[FTP]

Why don't they just licence eyeballs since that's the only device that really matters when watching TV. Then if the licence fee is too expensive you can poke one out and pay only half.

 

[Matt91]

The worry is that they will then employ a tattle incentive where neighbors would report each other for financial incentive.

This would be a huge income chase if 40 million+ mobile devices have to have a SABC license, we will end up with an SABC Gestapo.

I'd be more concerned about my neighbor with a pair bino's checking over the wall to see if I was using a cellphone, than fearing incompetent TV license police.

 

[Death]

Why don't they just licence eyeballs since that's the only device that really matters when watching TV. Then if the licence fee is too expensive you can poke one out and pay only half.

Do we get discount if we are 1 eye down? I know the blind can still listen to radio so they will have to charge for hearing too. Double whammy!

 

[Lindiswa]

they are mad!!

 

[Supersphola]

Do you have to pay if you are using a projector?

 

[My_King]

Oe oe, I have another one.

SABC also will be driving down each street at 5PM. You as a SA resident will have to stand outside clapping your hands as a sign of you praising them

 

[Thor]

So you are going to pay a TV license fee for Netflix and then the same fee again becuase you have a cell phone

That makes fokhol sense, so you will pay for the device and the software on it.

So PC screens are next

 

[charlieharper]

Oe oe, I have another one.

SABC also will be driving down each street at 5PM. You as a SA resident will have to stand outside clapping your hands as a sign of you praising them

 

[John Tempus]

I'd be more concerned about my neighbor with a pair bino's checking over the wall to see if I was using a cellphone, than fearing incompetent TV license police.

Don't need that, in general public, friends and family. Anyone with an axe to grind and in need of cash money by reporting you.

This is how the gestapo operated so efficiently, all started slowly but eventually families reported families and you didn't need to be monitoring them incognito to know whats going on.

 

[quovadis]

TCP is unicast. It's not broadcast. Move on now.

 

[Thor]

Laptops too