This is not correct. You have to differentiate between private households and corporations.
If you are a private person (living at only one location) and you already pay for a radio (5,52 euros a month) or a tv (~17 euros a month), you don't have to pay for you pc's, too. No matter how many you have. Also, if you already pay the (~17 euros) full tv fee, you don't have to pay for your additional radios, no matter how many you own, icluding the car radio and you mobile phones. Only, if you have no radio and tv device but an internet accesible computer device, you have to pay like for a radio (5,52 euros a month). [If you live at two locations, owning a pc, radio or tv at both places, you have to pay twice]
Now, the corporations/schools(!)/universities(!)/public offices(!): they also have to pay for televisions and radios, but here it matters how many they have. Every device has to be payed seperately. Most corporations (e.g. a house building company) only have one or two radios to be paid. The problem is that you have to pay for every single pc like a radio, too. Now, if you are the house building company which has a call center with let's say 10 agents, you have to pay 10 times. And the clue is that, if you are a company, you have to do you tax return computer and internet based. You are forced to, there is no more paper way (only companies, not private persons), so you are also forced to own an internet accessible pc. And now, every single one-man-company like a doctor or a trader has to pay the fee. And he is forced by law.
So, for me, there are two major problems in the fee (wich actually is a good thing, because independent public broadcast is supported) are: companies are forced to pay (which is very unaffaable to business) and also public institutions (like a university which I work at, owning loads of internet accessible computers) have to pay for every single computer.
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This is not correct. You have to differentiate between private households and corporations.
If you are a private person (living at only one location) and you already pay for a radio (5,52 euros a month) or a tv (~17 euros a month), you don't have to pay for you pc's, too. No matter how many you have. Also, if you already pay the (~17 euros) full tv fee, you don't have to pay for your additional radios, no matter how many you own, icluding the car radio and you mobile phones. Only, if you have no radio and tv device but an internet accesible computer device, you have to pay like for a radio (5,52 euros a month). [If you live at two locations, owning a pc, radio or tv at both places, you have to pay twice]
Now, the corporations/schools(!)/universities(!)/public offices(!): they also have to pay for televisions and radios, but here it matters how many they have. Every device has to be payed seperately. Most corporations (e.g. a house building company) only have one or two radios to be paid. The problem is that you have to pay for every single pc like a radio, too. Now, if you are the house building company which has a call center with let's say 10 agents, you have to pay 10 times. And the clue is that, if you are a company, you have to do you tax return computer and internet based. You are forced to, there is no more paper way (only companies, not private persons), so you are also forced to own an internet accessible pc. And now, every single one-man-company like a doctor or a trader has to pay the fee. And he is forced by law.
So, for me, there are two major problems in the fee (wich actually is a good thing, because independent public broadcast is supported) are: companies are forced to pay (which is very unaffaable to business) and also public institutions (like a university which I work at, owning loads of internet accessible computers) have to pay for every single computer.