[Newshound47]

People are underestimating how confusing this will be for many people. I know many  people who don’t know how to type something into a Tv or access an built in app or use a fire stick. It’s way more of a change than digital switchover.

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That sounds like a really early April Fools joke for me.

It’s not April though. I hardly think it’s an unrealistic if we look at how viewing habits have changed in the last decade and that’s likely to be accelerated over the next. 

It doesn’t make sense for this not be the next change.

Habits have changes for many people but a lot of people still watch entirely linear and those are the people without the technical skills to easily cope with this.

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There are still many rural and remote areas of Britain that don't have broadband internet access. Unless government launches a major rollout of high speed broadband to every area of Britain over the next 10-15 years, how will people in remote and rural areas of Britain access TV and Radio services? Some remote areas currently can only pick up satellite TV, as even the Freeview signal is too poor.

Not "many":

Ofcom say:

Factoring in the coverage estimates provided by FWA providers, we estimate that there remain
around 83,000 premises that do not have access to a decent broadband service from a fixed network
or an FWA network. This has fallen from our estimate of 99,500 in our Spring Update.

FWA being a reference to fixed wireless, i.e. 4G/5G or specially built wireless networks.

The BBC's press release specifically references Freeview, probably as it is very costly to run - so how many of the 83k are somehow so rural that they can't get broadband (and won't by the time this actually happens), somehow receive good Freeview service today, and somehow couldn't get Freesat?

A lot more people can’t get broadband that is fast enough to stream one programme at a time let alone more than one at a time.

Also live events is still a minute behind. No way will people be able for sport to be so far behind and people at the event to have plenty of time to tweet a development before they see it.