Samuel:
The Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM; in German "BAKOM") has changed the rules after the beginning of this year. Now PCs with a broadband connection are treated as radio receivers (see http://www.bakom.ch/en/radio_tv/gebuehren/grundlagen/radio_fernsehgeraete/in...).
Billag is only in charge of charging. The law (which is the "Radio- und Fernsehverordnung vom 6. Oktober 1997 (RTVV)" http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/sr/c784_401.html) says, you have to pay as soon as you have a deveice that is capable of receiving radio or tv programmes (and not whether you actually do it!).
Regards,
Juerg Reimann
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From: swinog-bounces@lists.swinog.ch [mailto:swinog-bounces@lists.swinog.ch] On Behalf Of samuel clakre
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 3:02 PM
To: swinog@swinog.ch
Subject: [swinog] Visit of Billag AG at home !
Hi all,
Sorry for my english !
Yesterday evening I had the visit of Billag AG at home. I have neither TV ,radios. I have just ADSL. I say to him that some time I to listen to the radios on the Internet.
Cost it wanted to make me pay the royalty for the radios. Because I had a broad-band connection and a PC!!!
I shine request papers official on what it wanted to tax me, it unfortunately had anything on him has to present to me.
3 slanging match after !
I say to him that when www.couleur3.ch is typed I have the radios without anything asked and without warned that I must pay billag to listen.
It is to retract in me say that I had the subscription that it thought.
It thought that I had the subscription of bluewin Internet + radios.
Who has a url with these law of billag??
Regards
sam
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