What they are not telling you now

Am I right in thinking the Govt got a lot of money for selling the 4G licence?

Almost certainly bluebell. Some of it will have to be spent installing filters for those homes suffering interference – but only one television per household.

absent could this affect the reception of TV and broadband if like my system it is brought to you via your phone line ?

glammanana I suspect that's like cable television and it won't be affected but I don't know much about this. I am just shocked that the government is being so blasé about this.

probably couldn't see through the £signs -it will be interesting to see which areas will be affected - if any of them are marginal constituencies then something more may happen!

absent agreeing about the government being blase,will they still be in power when everything goes wrong

glammanana Well this is all due to happen this year so I would guess that they will be.

I suppose that means some of us will have to buy the special filters ourselves. The TV reception where I live is awful and I have freesat on the main TV in the sitting room but have freeview on the other TV (I can't get as many channels as most on the freeview set). Living where I do my broadband is also very slow.

Barrow I don't think the government has made a statement concerning what happens in an affected area if you have more than one television. As far as I know, you ring the call centre and book an engineer who will come and fit one filter. There is also considerable worry among some MPs that this provides a wonderful cover for all sorts of thieves and conmen.

Money first ...consequences later....Cameron strikes again.

What is 4G?

4G has cross party agreement.

But what is it? Why should it interfere with TV?

Fourth generation mobile phone communication

It will interfere with freeview as its broadcasting band is near to that used by freeview. You will be allowed to book a visit from an engineer for one television, but pay £5 for any others you use. Of course if you are on Sky it will be fine. Some parts of the country won't work with the filters, so will get Sky free. No details of the where and when. Chaos predicted! Can anyone remember when we had to have the visit to change things when BBC2 was coming? I seem to remember we had to be converted then (I mean our televisions)

Already interfering with wireless loudspeaker systems. I suppose broadband will be as well?

Depends how you get your broadband. Cabled systems should be immune.

I'm betting that necessity (should the problem turn out to be as forecast) will be the mother of invention, as per usual, and lots of ways of overcoming the problem will be spawned. They will cost money, of course, but what doesn't? I don't think much "suffering" will occur.

I still don't really get what it means. Is it across all networks? if it's a waveband thing surely it'll be everyone affected or none?

We're a bit short on mobile masts around here so the signal will probably be too weak.

Everyony's freeview will be affected; only a few areas will need to be put onto Sky instead of having the filter fitted (where are they going to get all the fitters?) Is a Gransnet Fleet of Filter Fitters needed?

"Fleet of Filter Fitters" is not unlike Peter Piper picking his pickled peppers.

And today it has emerged that sum expected to be raised by the auction was overestimated by £1 billion.

So more cutbacks can be expected.