UK weighs making Netflix users pay a licence fee to fund the BBC

Ministers are also looking at tiering the licence fee to ensure lower-income households don’t pay the same rate as more affluent users. — Bloomberg

LONDON: The United Kingdom is considering making households who only use streaming services such as Netflix and Disney pay the British Broadcasting Corp (BBC) licence fee, as part of plans to modernise the way it funds the public-service broadcaster.

Extending the fee to streaming applications is on a menu of options being discussed by Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office, the Treasury and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be named discussing internal government deliberations.