Is BluewinTV not coming until December?
Apparently, Swisscom plans to launch its new Internet Protocol (IP)-based television service on December 21—which is pretty much at the very end of the officially stated launch window of the second half of 2006.
Apparently, Swisscom is planning to launch the new television service via Internet Protocol (IP) on December 21 - i.e. quite near the end of the officially announced launch date of the second half of 2006. As reported by a blogger on Symlink, a Bluewin TV300 customer was told when returning the device to the Swisscom store that he could keep the device and thus also receive BluewinTV via ADSL from December.
The same blogger came across an apparently provisional store offer on the Swisscom website that announced BluewinTV. This site has since been removed. However, Blogg.ch was able to take a screenshot of it and publish it. The news was also published today in Monday's online edition.
BluewinTV will cost CHF 25 per month, with 100 channels available. The set-up fee and welcome kit add up to CHF 250. However, Swisscom spokesperson Christian Neuhaus did not want to confirm this information to Netzwoche. The site is a placeholder and the information is provisional. In fact, the page that has been removed is also labeled "placeholder".
