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THE wireless licence problem has for some time been engaging the attention of the Post Office authorities, and acute differences appear now to have arisen between the Postmaster-General and the British Broadcasting Company as to the conditions under which licences may be issued to amateurs who either own home-made wireless sets or desire to build up such sets. Matters have been brought to a head by the present Postmaster-General refusing to impose upon amateurs restrictions which the British Broadcasting Company claims it has a right, under its agreement with the Post Office, to insist upon. The Postmaster-General made a statement in the House of Commons on April 19 on the situation that has, in consequence, come to pass: he then informed the House that negotiations had taken place on the licence question between himself and the Company, and that the latter had suggested that the Post Office issue to the home-constructor a licence, without any clog, at 205-., of which 155. was to go to the Company. This proposal was promptly declined by the Postmaster-General. Then, in the course of further negotiations, othe Company expressed its willingness to permit the Post Office to issue to amateurs a licence at 10.?., of which one-half was to go to the Company, but such licence was to be subject to the clogging provision that it should alone be issued to those home-constructors who either own, or propose to build up, listening-in sets with parts of “B.B.C.” manufacture. This proposal has also proved unacceptable to the Postmaster-General.
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Broadcasting and Wireless Licences. Nature 111, 589–591 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111589a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/111589a0