Loss Of Freeview

[emmie]

has anyone heard about this, we had leaflets put through the door about this recently, that we could lose our Freeview channels because of the 4G,

http://money.aol.co.uk/2013/06/06/freeview-tv-signal-under-threat-from-4g/?ncid=webmail4

[mikey4444]

I believe it is about to happen in the West Country. But you just need to retune apperently.

[aelmpvw]

we've had to rescan our television channels in the east midlands because of 4g

[Hopkirk]

Yes there is some worry, but until it happens you can't do anything.

If someone is putting leaflets through your door, I smell a scam.

Relax and cross the bridge when you come to it.
If there is a problem you will not be alone.

[emmie]

strange that i hadn't heard anything about this at all until i got this leaflet.

[craft1948]

Got one of those through the door last week (in York)

[bibblebub]

testing seems to show that warnings of the effects of 4G on Freeview have been exaggerated http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2273260/4g-tests-reveal-90-000-freeview-boxes-are-likely-to-be-affected?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Twitterfeed&utm_term=INQ&;utm_content=INQ

[Hopkirk]

Here is a BBC article from February about it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21410743

[emmie]

Hopkirk, i wondered that too, being a scam, the company listed is
let's be clear at 800, i won't be contacting them at any rate.

[Sycamore3House]

We had to retune yesterday in South Devon.

[mikey4444]

This is unlikely to be a scam. The interference to Freeview from 4g is a recognised outcome of the roll-out of 4g. This from the Guardian in April ::

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/apr/11/freeview-tv-vewers-4g-mobile-test

[emmie]

no one has said when this might happen...

[emmie]

i wondered whether the company i listed is some sort of fee paying enterprise.

[Hopkirk]

I would file the leaflet under 'recycling'

[bibblebub]

Yesterday, I went into a 3-mobile shop to ask when 4G would become generally available on their network and was told by September.

[seadogg]

Think you have a point Hopkirk. Even if there was co-channel interference a simple and easy to fit narrow band filter, together with a good system, should be bombproof. The real headache is the many old people who haven't a clue about retuning if it became needed. As a radio amateur I had many to do last time it became necessary and friends do the same.

[mikey4444]

Em....if you live in the West Country, then this could be true..see sycamores post above.

[Buenchico]

>>>no one has said when this might happen...

There have been dozens of articles and news items about it over the past two years! (See Hopkirk's link from this February).

>>>the company listed is let's be clear at 800, i won't be contacting them at any rate
>>>i wondered whether the company i listed is some sort of fee paying enterprise

When the Government sold the licences to operate 4G services, it was known that some interference to terrestrial TV services might occur and, consequently, the phone companies (EE, Three, O2 and Vodafone) were required to fund a body to provide solutions, free of charge, to TV viewers. It is that organisation which put a leaflet through your door, in order that it can carry out its function properly.

All you need to know is on their website:
https://at800.tv/

[sp1814]

From the BBC article:

A fund provided by the 4G auction winners will be used to pay for filters for those who need them.

However, around 1% of affected Freeview households will be unable to use them and will be offered an alternative instead.

Wonder what the alternative will be...perhaps a radio?

[emmie]

i already have a wireless, Archie Andrews and The Clitheroe kid, wonder if they will catch on

[Kevink]

"Wonder what the alternative will be...perhaps a radio?"

FreeSat?