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`BT turns on to TV • The Register
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`BT turns on to TV
`Small beer
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`Kieren McCarthy
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`Fri 2 Nov 2001 // 20:42 UTC
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`BT has made its first move into broadcasting by applying for a "non-exclusive local delivery
`service licence" from the Independent Television Commission (ITC). The licence - which still
`has to be approved by the DTi and Oftel - will allow the monster telco to provide "television
`services" over cable or phone networks (we're talking ADSL here).
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`The move will put BT along the same lines as competitors NTL and Telewest and allow it to
`make a further shift toward becoming a services company. And then of course there is the fact
`that the new chairman Sir Christopher Bland used to be the chairman of the BBC and before
`that the boss at London Weekend Television. So he should know a thing or two about
`broadcasting.
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`BT would not have been allowed to run such a service until this year when rules were relaxed.
`The rules, which were written in the year BT was privatised (1984), were intended to give
`competitors a chance to work their way into the market.
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`We're not entirely sure how all this works and the ITC is fobbing off queries onto BT, but
`according to an ITC press release: "The applicant [BT] has committed to serve the minimum
`1001 homes in the 15-year licence period. A nominal cash bid of £1 has been made and the
`ITC has set the percentage of qualifying revenue to be paid for non-exclusive licences at zero."
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`A decision should be made by early next year. ®
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`https://www.theregister.com/2001/11/02/bt_turns_on_to_tv/
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`fuboTV MEDIA INC., and Yanka Industries, Inc., v. Dish Technologies L.L.C., IPR2024-00917
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