The compulsory tax on communication devises is a relic of a bygone age. Note how the recipients of the tax are so keen to get rid of all things that smack of heritage, history, or tradition ... except the £billions they themselves trouser due to those very same conditions. If you do not pay your subscription to Sky, Netflix, Appletv, or any of the other tv programme suppliers then you are unable to receive them. This is very easy for them to do in this digital and internet capable age. Are we to believe that it is beyond the abilities of the Beep to do the same if we do not subscribe? Of course it isn't, they just don't want you to notice. As for the non stop advertising of the catch up and iPlayer "services", now available on all your devises, realise that this is not to do you a favour or to make you life more fulfilled. It is to establish a precedent that they have always considered that they own the right to tax you for being in possession of any devise that is capable of receiving their output, even inadvertently. They can also block those avenues, just like every other provider, if they want to. How do they collect their fees from the other countries of the World that can and do receive them. Short answer ... they don't, you are paying.