{"id":421,"date":"2007-06-27T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-06-27T07:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T05:55:00","slug":"tv-enabled-pc-laptop-and-cellphone-users-must-have-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/421-tv-enabled-pc-laptop-and-cellphone-users-must-have-license.html","title":{"rendered":"TV enabled PC, Laptop and Cellphone users must have license"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Anton Heunis, Head of the Audience Services Division at the SABC, said that any device which is capable of receiving a broadcast television signal requires a TV license.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Heunis said that PCs and laptops with TV cards as well as new cellular phones with DVBH or similar technologies will need a licence.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The SABC pointed out that only one valid TV licence is required per household which means that, as long as the household consists of a single family, multiple TV enabled appliances are covered by the single licence.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">In the event of a few friends &ndash; each owning a TV enabled device &#8211; sharing a house, each of the individuals are however required to purchase their own TV licence.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Heunis said that many PC retail outlets already ask for a valid TV licence before selling a laptop or PC with a TV card to a client, and that the SABC is in discussion with cellular players to possibly introduce a similar system.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=79443\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SABC recently launched their new TV License Inspectorate, and said that all TV enabled devices are subject to TV license fees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}