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Cynical or what, they wait to see if Freeview is going to be a success, then try and recover payment, if they'd done it prior to the launch most people would have said have it back with pleasure.
It may still bite them in the bum, as many people whilst still wanting to receive Freeview, will perhaps prefer to pay just under £100 and get a new fast version with a manufacturers guarantee and they'll be left with thousands of used slow boxes.
Up to one million former subscribers to the defunct pay television business ITV Digital are to be told to return their set- top boxes or pay £39.99.
Cynical or what, they wait to see if Freeview is going to be a success, then try and recover payment, if they'd done it prior to the launch most people would have said have it back with pleasure.
It may still bite them in the bum, as many people whilst still wanting to receive Freeview, will perhaps prefer to pay just under £100 and get a new fast version with a manufacturers guarantee and they'll be left with thousands of used slow boxes.