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313 points dcminter | 2 comments | 21 Oct 24 18:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.408s | source
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cooper_ganglia ◴[21 Oct 24 19:34 UTC] No.41907633[source]▶
A "TV License" is one of those things I alway assumed people were making up to satirize the claims of over-regulation & bureaucracy in the UK.

Finding out it was real was a mixture of hilarious and sobering.

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Zak ◴[21 Oct 24 19:38 UTC] No.41907684[source]▶
Many European countries are worse about it than the UK; even people who do not own a television are required by law to pay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licence

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1. praptak ◴[21 Oct 24 19:54 UTC] No.41907863[source]▶
I remember that in Poland electronic repair shops offered companies removal of the TV demodulator from TV sets used as monitors. That was necessary for the TV not to count as a TV receiver and thus not to generate the fee liability.

I think there also were some large cases where a company who owned a car fleet had to pay for the car radios.

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2. Scoundreller ◴[22 Oct 24 01:26 UTC] No.41910288[source]▶
Finland requires a radio license fee for taxis, or at least did 21 years ago:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/dec/07/andrewosborn

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2542291.stm