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My elderly neighbour has just received this from the usual suspects. It has echoes of the same rubbish I have had to go through with Russian reception for the family.
This neighbour is italian, with permanent leave to remain (or whatever they call it these days), lives on her own and has just a moderate sized TV with internal satellite tuner.
This is connected to a 60cm dish which I installed years ago and pointing to Hotbird. There is no aerial to her apartment, the dish is on a south west parapet wall with just enough clearance to receive 19 East at a push but no further as the property next door gets in the way.
She has received other letters going back around three years, coinciding with her purchasing the TV, filling in the ownership card and other at the department store to validate the guarantees. Since there is no signal into the property apart from the dish she has never thought they might put her 'under investigation'.
This is the first time however there is mention of the Communications Act of 2003, specifically the breach of it by watch/recording live TV programmes on any channel or device. The other side of the letter mentions 'how to stop the Enforcement Visit, but none apply to her , save the option of buying a licence at £6 per week on a payment card, along with a 0300 number that never gets answered.
What is the legal aspect should somebody come knocking at her door when the only stuff she watches is from Italy via satellite ? Is the TV tuner the legal angle they use to screw people over ?
All advice welcome since she is now worried to watch programmes from her home country on New Year's Eve/Day.
I have offered to fit a small receiver plus computer monitor if this is the way forward, a bit of a waste of a good television though and would be fruitless if they have all bases covered.
This neighbour is italian, with permanent leave to remain (or whatever they call it these days), lives on her own and has just a moderate sized TV with internal satellite tuner.
This is connected to a 60cm dish which I installed years ago and pointing to Hotbird. There is no aerial to her apartment, the dish is on a south west parapet wall with just enough clearance to receive 19 East at a push but no further as the property next door gets in the way.
She has received other letters going back around three years, coinciding with her purchasing the TV, filling in the ownership card and other at the department store to validate the guarantees. Since there is no signal into the property apart from the dish she has never thought they might put her 'under investigation'.
This is the first time however there is mention of the Communications Act of 2003, specifically the breach of it by watch/recording live TV programmes on any channel or device. The other side of the letter mentions 'how to stop the Enforcement Visit, but none apply to her , save the option of buying a licence at £6 per week on a payment card, along with a 0300 number that never gets answered.
What is the legal aspect should somebody come knocking at her door when the only stuff she watches is from Italy via satellite ? Is the TV tuner the legal angle they use to screw people over ?
All advice welcome since she is now worried to watch programmes from her home country on New Year's Eve/Day.
I have offered to fit a small receiver plus computer monitor if this is the way forward, a bit of a waste of a good television though and would be fruitless if they have all bases covered.
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