Petition To reduce the TV license fee due to BBC taking a channel off air to save money

BBC announced that BBC 3 will be taken offline due to restructuring, as a result this means everyone will be paying for a channel that is only available online. Now until superfast broadband is all over that leaves a large proportion of people unable to watch online tv and overpaying for a service

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See the failed BT Superfast Roll Out
See BBC 3 (as its officially gone off-air to an online platform)
Look at the statistics many families who do not have access to internet still have to pay a TV License fee which goes to the BBC

If the TV License fee was reduced that would free up capital for citizens to spend on other commodities and so could free up much needed money for the vunerable individuals and allow people to spend in other areas of the Economy and give the UK greater independance

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

18 signatures

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Date closed 3 September 2016
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