Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-11-14-Speech-1-093"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-11-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Digital switchover2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20051114.14.1-093"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-11-14-Speech-1-0942
lpv:speaker	lp:John Purvis2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, my household is a fairly typical European household: we have a TV set in the sitting room, one in the kitchen, one in our bedroom and one for the grandchildren when they visit. We subscribe to Sky Digital by satellite, which costs around GBP 40 – EUR 60 – a month, and we pay our TV licence for the BBC public service channels. Even though there are hundreds of digital channels, we will be able to view only one digital channel at a time on all these sets because we have only one viewing card. At the moment, while my wife watches ‘Extreme Makeover’ and our grandchildren view the cartoon channel on digital, I can still get the news on one of the five analogue channels. After the switchover – which is only two or three years away now in the UK – we will be stuck with only one channel at a time unless we pay for extra decryption boxes and cards. To cover all the interests in a typical household, this could require up to four or five cards. The cost could be GBP 200 – EUR 300 – a month; GBP 2 000 – EUR 3 000 – a year over and above the licence fee. It is essential that the Commission ensure that the digital service providers, such as Sky, allow multiple-channel choice in each household at reasonable cost and that they do not make the multiple choice that digital can offer so absurdly expensive that it cannot be availed of. I therefore ask the Commissioner: what will you do about the availability and cost of multiple channels in each household? What will you do to ensure monopoly positions are not unreasonably exploited and what will you do to mitigate the cost of even a single set changeover from analogue to digital for the less well off and the socially vulnerable?"@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with Iran (2004-10-13--2007-03-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ITRE (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Gulf States, including Yemen (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 vice-chair; ECON (2004-09-01--2007-01-14)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"John Purvis (PPE-DE ). –"1

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