The state-owned Telekom reiterated it believed neither N1 nor SBB cared about N1 TV being available to over 800,000 households, but only about multimillion profit.

The United Group programmes have been off the air via the cable operators in Telekom group since January 17, after a new contract on the service price was not signed.

 Telekom said it could distribute N1 without paying for that, but the United Group had earlier stated that “neither Telekom nor Serbia’s regime has a legal or moral right to the free distribution of N1.

The UG had made a public offer to all operators which was still in place. It added that Telekom could distribute N1 TV to 800,000 households at any time by accepting the offer.

“N1's journalists and editors make programmes which, according to Telekom management, are not worth a penny, while for other cable TVs, close to the authorities, it allocates dozens of millions of Euros in a non-transparent way, hiding the prices from the public,” UG said.