Mobile carriers form DMSL to fight Freeview signal disruption from 4G

Why Should we have to buy these filters when it was not us "ordanary people" that created the problem. Is this just another scam to make pensioners such as my wife and myself to fork out more money? We have had to buy digital televisions and upgrade our ariel at a cost of hundreds of pounds, which we can hardly afford. What next? Will we have to have a brain implant to watch television? DMSL should provide these filters free to people on fixed low income and not rip us off. Once again it is the big companies milking the little man dry. Well you can no longer have your "Pound of Flesh" as it has been picked to the bone.

The devil in this matter is Ofcom who, unfortunately, do not seem able to plan competently for the future. No sooner has one Ofcom plan finalised and expensively actioned than new plans are made that almost invariably require disruption, at considerable expense, to previous completed plans. And who pays? Not Ofcom with it's highly paid executives that is funded by levies on the telecom companies. Not the telecom companies as they pass on the Ofcom costs and their costs to the consumer. Several times in the past 20 years there has been reorganisation of telephone numbers as some places were "running out of numbers"! Each time the reorganisation has been to solve problems for the forseeable future. Then the very, very costly switch from analogue TV to digital Freeview. This in order that the analogue frequencies could be sold off to telecom companies for mobile phone use. And in the long run this, and the costly Ofcom, is paid for, indirectly, by the consumer.

I read in the press that some 40000 homes could loose their Freeveiw signal permanently as the filter will not work in all circumstances. these households will be offered alternatives such as Freesat and those agedover 75 or disabled will be entitled to extra help. as I am 87 years old what help will I be entitled too having recently purchased a new 37 inch T/V and recorder for Free view

Surely it is an offence under the Broadcasting Act to cause interference to TV and radio reception. How does that add up!!

On Monday morning my tv with freeview stopped working and I cannot get any stations,am not sure if this is because of 4G or just a coinsidence.

Ofcom has failed miserably. It is time the Government took action to shake it up, I egree with Ben's comment. What action will this Government take? Answer, None.