If the NHK reception contract is a one-seg compatible mobile, "not necessary" judgment, NHK announces policy of appeal

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The Saitama District Court showed a judgment that "there is no contractual obligation" in a lawsuit against whether a person holding a mobile phone terminal capable of receiving one-segment broadcasting is obligated to pay the NHK reception fee. NHK plans to appeal the judgment as dissenting.

Judgment that there is no duty of reception contract "mobile with a 1 seg function | NHK News
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20160826/k10010655101000.html

One Seg, no NHK contract obligation Mobile ownership Saitama District Court - Kyodo News 47 NEWS
http://this.kiji.is/141760955274806775

This trial was the thing caused by Masanobu Ohashi 's assembly of Asaka city Saitama prefecture. The city council belonging to "the party that protects the people from NHK" is in the lawsuit, does not set up a television, only owns a cell phone with the one-segment function, whether it is necessary to pay the NHK broadcast reception fee I was asking for confirmation.

In response to this action, the presiding judge of the Saitama district court ruled that August 26, 2016, there was no obligation to sign a reception contract.

At the trial, the interpretation of the item that there is an obligation of the reception contract at the "person who set up the receiving equipment" stated in Article 64 (1) of the Broadcasting Law was contested. What was especially contested here was interpretation as to whether the terminal is "equipment" or "mobile". Ohashi Municipal asserted that one-segment of mobile phone is "mobile" instead of "installation". NHK, on ​​the other hand, based on the provisions of the same law, "People who have installed equipment capable of receiving NHK broadcasts must make a contract to receive broadcasts", mobile phones with one-seg function without ownership of television We also requested to sign a reception contract and pay the broadcast reception fee.

In the ruling, "The word" installation "of the broadcasting law should be interpreted as having been used in the sense that it puts it in a certain place with the television in mind, the possession of the mobile phone is not the installation of the receiving equipment" , The court ruled that there was no contractual obligation.

The party that protects the people from the NHK to which the city council belongs has been declared on the official website and YouTube about the contents of the ruling.

Party official website that protects citizens from NHK
http://nhkkara.jp/

One-Seg reception fee first victory won by NHK - YouTube


On the other hand, NHK says, "The ruling understands that the interpretation of the installation of the receiving facilities under Article 64 of the Broadcasting Law was incorrect and immediate appeal."

◆ 2016/08/26 18:25 Additional notes
Takashi Tachibana, "Party to Protect the People from NHK", released comments and others on the YouTube after the war.

Won the NHK trial One Seg Details - YouTube