In Germany owning an iPhone will set you back another 5,76 Euro a month now

Posted on January 20, 2009
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You have to love German efficiency. Since this year 2009 iPhone owners have to pay an extra of 5,76 Euro per month on top of the fee they pay for the monthly plan at T-Mobile.

The GEZ (Central radio and television toll collecting agency) in Germany does argue that the iPhone is a device that enables you to access the internet (that’s true) and they use the money to provide the citizens of Germany a basic coverage of news and information of all kind. This is an old approach they translated form the television part of media where the argumentation goes that by collecting the fees they gather the money to ensure that media is not influenced by advertising or big money quite as much and you will get rather unbiased news coverage.

They have a point there if you look at Italy for example where all the big contry wide television channels are owned by the President of state.

BUT and that is a big but. Its all not true when it comes to the internet. The coverage they provide is by far not complete and IMHO its outragous for them to charge 5.76 Euro from everybody on a monthly basis for the sites they do host.

Anyway if you are a honest person you will have to pay the extra – even if you don’t access their pages ever.  

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