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  • A TV license is required to view broadcast TV (and there used to be a radio license). In the past listening to the radio required a license (I think was absorbed into the TV license and then made exempt).

    It was made exempt, therefore it is not unlicensed it is license exempt (a big difference). In the not too distant past it was illegal to use an FM transmitter (say from an iPod or MP3 player to your car radio) but due to the plethora of devices available it became unenforceable (and though Ofcom could have prosecuted shops/distributers in the UK, not really possible outside the UK) so they passed an SI to exempt those devices (with a license that stated the max power allowed and frequency bands etc).

    There are lots of people using illegal radio equipment in the UK i.e. if you connect say a Raspberry Pi and a LoRa transmitter HAT and use it, you are breaking the law (though LoRa is legal, any equipment used must be CE marked as a whole i.e. the Pi and LoRa kit as a single piece of equipment) and by using non CE market kit, you are breaking the license exemption for the 868MHz band (of course Ofcom are unlikely to do anything unless someone complains re interference).

    Re the course section 3.1

    "Bluetooth LE is radically different from Bluetooth Classic. It transmits data over 40 channels in the 2.4GHz unlicensed ISM frequency band,"

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  • A TV license is required to view broadcast TV (and there used to be a radio license). In the past listening to the radio required a license (I think was absorbed into the TV license and then made exempt).

    It was made exempt, therefore it is not unlicensed it is license exempt (a big difference). In the not too distant past it was illegal to use an FM transmitter (say from an iPod or MP3 player to your car radio) but due to the plethora of devices available it became unenforceable (and though Ofcom could have prosecuted shops/distributers in the UK, not really possible outside the UK) so they passed an SI to exempt those devices (with a license that stated the max power allowed and frequency bands etc).

    There are lots of people using illegal radio equipment in the UK i.e. if you connect say a Raspberry Pi and a LoRa transmitter HAT and use it, you are breaking the law (though LoRa is legal, any equipment used must be CE marked as a whole i.e. the Pi and LoRa kit as a single piece of equipment) and by using non CE market kit, you are breaking the license exemption for the 868MHz band (of course Ofcom are unlikely to do anything unless someone complains re interference).

    Re the course section 3.1

    "Bluetooth LE is radically different from Bluetooth Classic. It transmits data over 40 channels in the 2.4GHz unlicensed ISM frequency band,"

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