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Swedes' ire at out-of-hours TV-fee collectors

Science & Technology: 7 Mar 13
Swedes have been left seething following the tactics of the Swedish TV-licence fee collectors, who are making telephone calls at "uncomfortable" hours in an effort to round up those not paying the annual television fee. READ »

Smartphone owners hit with TV-licence fee

Science & Technology: 4 Mar 13
Swedish TV-licence fee collectors have started asking Swedes if they have smartphones, in a drive to round up anyone who may be streaming content online but not paying the annual television fee. READ »

TV-fee collectors target streaming-device owners

Science & Technology: 27 Feb 13
The Swedish tv-licence fee collectors have begun asking Swedes if they have computers, in a drive to include viewers who stream content online rather than watch traditional television. READ »

Swedish ISP hits back over TV licence fees

Science & Technology: 25 Jan 13
A Swedish ISP outraged by the prospect of computer and iPad owners being forced to pay TV licence fees is offering clients a "TV Stopper" to block online content from state broadcaster SVT. READ »

iPad owners to pay Swedish TV licence fee

Science & Technology: 22 Jan 13
A move by Sveriges Television (SVT) to offer all of its content online means that Swedes who watch digitally streamed content on computer and tablet devices such as the iPad will have to start paying television licence fees. READ »

Sweden scraps income-based 'TV tax' scheme

Business & Money: 22 Oct 12
Sweden's plan to replace licence fees with an income-based tax to fund public broadcasters has been put on ice, according to the ministry of culture, which says that a more thorough analysis into the scheme needs to be carried out. READ »

Backlash over income-based 'TV tax' plan

Society: 11 Sep 12
Sweden's plan to replace licence fees with an income-based tax to fund public broadcasters has drawn criticism from public radio and television officials. READ »

Sweden's TV licence system under review

Science & Technology: 22 Feb 11
The system of TV licensing to fund Swedish public TV and radio broadcasting could be discontinued after 2013, after a majority of members of parliament expressed support for a new model. READ »

Swedish TV licence fees contribute to better society

Society: 13 Jan 11
Sweden's television and radio licence fee system may appear confusing to new arrivals to the country, especially to those who come from countries that collect revenue for public broadcasting through taxation. READ »

Cell phone owners could face TV licence fees

Science & Technology: 12 Oct 09
Swedish TV licensing body Radiotjänst has indicated that cell phone users may soon face licence fees as technological advances bring television to the mobile. READ »

Outrage over licence fee demand for CCTV

Science & Technology: 14 May 09
Swedish business owners are up in arms over a recent push by the country’s television licencing bureau to collect fees from companies using surveillance cameras. READ »

Computers owners to face TV licence fees

Science & Technology: 18 Mar 08
Sweden's television licensing agency Radiotjänst is preparing to push through measures requiring computer owners to pay an annual television license fee. READ »

Swedes paying TV licence fees in droves

National: 31 Dec 07
A TV licence costs around five kronor a day - and more and more Swedes are coughing up the cash. READ »

Top Moderate pays for 14 years of TV viewing

Politics: 26 Dec 06
He has not paid his television licence fee for fourteen years, something he admits was "careless", but now Moderate Party secretary Per Schlingmann has settled his debt. Now he waits to see whether the police will get involved. READ »

Police questioning for ex-culture minister

Politics: 2 Dec 06
Former Culture Minister Cecilia Stegö Chilò has been called in for police questioning over her failure to pay her television licence. READ »

Old couple chased for TV licence

National: 8 Nov 06
Sweden's television licensing authority has forced an elderly couple to pay their fee, despite the fact that they live in an old people's home where nobody else is required to pay. READ »

Ministers not alone in licence fee dodge

National: 17 Oct 06
Three government ministers have been hauled over the coals for not paying their television licence fee. But authorities taking the ministers to court have opted not to pursue other well-known figures who have also failed to pay up. READ »

Stegö Chilò's resignation statement in English

Politics: 16 Oct 06
"What will happen with our democracy if it only has room for faultless people?" Cecilia Stegö Chilò's full statement in English. READ »

Ministers reported to police for unpaid TV licences

Politics: 13 Oct 06
Radiotjänst, the authority responsible for collecting television licence fees, has reported three ministers - Cecilia Stegö Chilò, Tobias Billström and Maria Borelius - to the police for not paying up. READ »

Ministers could be reported to police over TV fee

National: 12 Oct 06
Sweden's television licensing authority will decide on Thursday whether to report three government ministers to the police for not paying their TV charges. READ »

New culture minister skipped TV licence fee

National: 11 Oct 06
Sweden's new culture minister Cecilia Stegö Chilò has not paid her television licence fee for the past 16 years, it has emerged. Journalists' union bosses call for her to resign. READ »

Computer owners 'have to pay TV tax'

National: 13 Jul 06
People who own computers that can receive television programmes may soon be forced to pay a TV licence fee - even if they never use their computers to watch Swedish television. READ »

Mobile buyers must pay tv licence

Society: 21 May 05
Owners of many new mobile models could also find themselves liable to pay the television licence fee. This despite the fact that licence-funded SVT cannot be received on mobile phones. READ »

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