Current Situation Ukraine

@ThomasS great commitment from Swisscom (with the free tariffs)!

Side question; Is the blocking of RT due to a federal decree or the decisions of the BR or solely by Swisscom?

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@ThomasS wrote:

Dear community

Maybe you’ve already seen it on our channels:

Due to the current situation, Swisscom is waiving the costs for calls from Switzerland to Ukraine as well as roaming costs incurred in Ukraine until March 15, 2022.

Swisscom also decided today to stop broadcasting the TV channel “Russia Today” until further notice.

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I don’t think it’s a bad thing if the rascal’s station is no longer broadcast.

But weren’t some Russian citizens living in Switzerland forgotten?

It’s the rascal and not the Russian folk…

@FlySmurf why should Russian people in Switzerland watch RT in English?, people probably speak Russian and there is

РТР Планета, the first channel and Карусель, also on Blue TV and the Vintera app with over 100 Russian channels is also on the box

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@Gaeilgeoir wrote:

@FlySmurf why should Russian people in Switzerland watch RT in English?, people probably speak Russian and there is

РТР Планета, первий канал and Карусель, also on Blue TV and the Vintera app with over 100 Russian channels is also on the box

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If that’s the case, okay. It was just a quick thought of mine 🙂

Thanks

Today both Russian channels Pervyi Kanal and Rossiya are still running and spreading the worst possible war propaganda. That’s sickening. And very lacking in solidarity with the Ukrainian war victims and refugees.

Simply unfair to the Balkan states!!!

@Feilleickie85 What do you mean by that? There are enough channels from Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia. Albania and Kosovo, what do you think they are missing? In addition, there is only one Ukrainian children’s channel and one Russian-language news channel on Swisscom, what could be unfair?

@Feilleickie85

Of course you can chat during normal working hours using the link below.

[https://www.swisscom.ch/de/privatkunden/hilfe/kontakt.html#beratung-und-bestellung/tv](https://www.swisscom.ch/de/privatkunden/hilfe/kontakt.html# advice-and-order/tv)

Dear Swisscom community

It is a noble gesture to eliminate roaming costs from Switzerland to Ukraine.

“Russia Today” no longer exists in that sense, it is now just called “RT.” I myself am not a Russian citizen and I don’t understand Russian either. Nevertheless, I am interested in how and what is disseminated in Russia, including about the conflict. If the point is that it should only be a propaganda station/web and something like that shouldn’t be spread, then many stations in the EU and Switzerland would also have to be blocked/discontinued.

There is a very good saying: “Keep your friends close, but your enemies even closer.”

In order to be truly informed, it is necessary to always listen to both sides of the coin, even if much of it is based on fake news or propaganda.

Switzerland in particular should remain neutral here. 😉

You don’t seriously believe that RT shows what is being spread in Russia. This isn’t a political forum either, I can’t even say it’s a nice try.

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@Hemmoweb40 wrote:

“Russia Today” no longer exists in that sense, it’s just called “RT.” I am not a Russian citizen myself. Nevertheless, I am interested in how and what is disseminated in Russia, including about the conflict.

In order to be truly informed, it is necessary to always listen to both sides of the coin, even if much of it is based on fake news or propaganda.

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@Hemmoweb40 I can’t understand what you wrote, are you trolling?

You: “I don’t understand Russian either.”

You: “In order to really get informed, it is necessary to always listen to both sides of the coin”

How ​​is that supposed to work if you don’t understand Russian!!!

Pictures without words?

@Hemmoweb40

If you need it, you can even read the news online in German at RT. This is roughly what is spread in Russia. “It’s just a special military operation in Ukraine and the entire West is responding with unprecedented, disproportionate sanctions against Russia.” By the way, that’s how the first sentence begins there. Did you expect anything else? There’s nothing more to say about this, let alone even have a discussion here, especially since we’re not in a political Selensky/Putin forum, but in a Swisscom customers helping customers forum.

I don’t know if this thread is the right one for this… but I would like to know whether Swisscom plans to switch on the following channels in the near future:

TNT International Europe

(Russian entertainment channel)

TVRUS, TVRUS Plus, Novyi Mir

(Russian-language entertainment channels from Germany)

OstWest 24, Svoboda News

(Russian-language news channel from Germany)

All channels broadcast via Free TV on Hotbird 13.

It would be great if at least one of the channels was broadcast on Blue TV soon.

@Stiestudiess29 Swisscom does not comment on future channel activations. In the meantime I can recommend the BEM TV app, it is available for Android and Apple TV and if you have a Swisscom TV 21 box you can soon download this app onto the box (this is already possible with the TV 5), the app has most of them mentioned (and even more) channels (including the domestic versions of THT and CTC, which are better than the international versions).