YouView from BT will be available with all of BT's TV and broadband packages and will launch on 26 October.
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That, of course, includes all of BT Openreach wholesale customers, like Sky and TalkTalk.
All Freeview, BT Vision and Top Up TV viewers will need to retune their equipment to regain missing channels.
"BT cannot meet all demands on the first day, or in the first tranche, " said an Oftel spokesman explaining why the system was needed.
Another rival BSkyB is facing on the broadband front is BT Group, Britain's former telecommunications monopoly, which recently launched a digital TV service called BT Vision to all its broadband customers.
But come October, when an order is issued, it will be taken to apply not just to BT but to all the major ISPs, who got a letter before the case asking them to act against Newzbin 2.
The bidding process has been open to all but, so far, BT has won in every case.
Some large companies may have 40 mobiles with Orange, 40 with Vodafone and 30 with BT Cellnet, with all kinds of different providers.
Publications that ignored our story when it appeared are now falling all over one another to report on bt's woes.
There have been concerns that the effort could break EU competition rules because all bids so far had been won by BT.
BT's rivals were not all that keen on a break-up.
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There's no specified channel list just yet, but we're sure TalkTalk and BT will be filling us in on all the details ahead of any launch.
"We feel we have not been supported with all these problems and we have yet to hear from BT, " he said.
Apparently, this is all down to some future gazing by the pointy heads at BT.
The quartet will all be in action again on Monday 25 May at the BT Paralympic World Cup in Manchester.
BT's strategy seems to be to wait until all of its would-be competitors have given up, at which point it will have the market for sexy services such as broadband Internet access to itself.
In all cases, Vodafone is a likely buyer and it is uncertain how much BT could actually get for the sale.
On Monday BT showed off the range of partners that will soon start providing all manner of multimedia services to those using its high-speed web connections.
And the bit of PwC in the UK that remained attached to PWC's overseas network would still have a massive advantage over competitors, because PWC's British-based multinational clients - the likes of Barclays, Tesco and BT - would presumably stick with the international network able to audit all their subsidiaries and branches, rather than employing a British firm without global capability.
All that gear is shoved into a 3D-printed module and attached to the BT-100 to turn it into a pair of smart glasses.
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