Editing Swatch Internet Time (section)

===Beatnik satellite controversy===
{{See also|Sputnik 99}}

In early 1999, Swatch began a marketing campaign about the launch of their [[Sputnik 99|Beatnik satellite]], intended to service a set of Internet Time watches. They were criticized for planning to use an [[amateur radio]] frequency for broadcasting a commercial message (an act banned by international treaties). The satellite was intended to be deployed by hand from the ''[[Mir]]'' space station. Swatch instead donated the transmitter batteries for use in normal ''Mir'' functions, and the satellite never broadcast.<ref>{{cite news
| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/320560.stm
| title=Hams jam space spam
| date=1999-04-16
| work=[[BBC News]]
| access-date=2018-09-18}}</ref>