The following articles have been tagged with "Radiotjänst":
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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National: 31 Dec 07
A TV licence costs around five kronor a day - and more and more Swedes are coughing up the cash.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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