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Subscription television in Australia consists of the dominant provider Foxtel with cable & satellite TV in capital cities, and mostly the same channels are offered by Austar predominantly via satellite TV in regional areas. Optus provides Foxtel channels on its cable networks. Only the actual Foxtel service offered HD channels as of Feb 2009.

Smaller competitors offer a subset of channels - with SelecTV offering satellite TV nationwide, and TransACT offering TV via its own VDSL network in Canberra and its Neighbourhood Cable network in parts of Victoria. Other small companies offer some channels via satellite, especially foreign services or free-to-air channels, and some channels are available over the Internet.

[edit] Delivery

[edit] Satellite

Foxtel and Austar both use the Optus C1 satellite.
SelecTV uses PAS 8.
UBI World TV uses Optus B3.
The various GlobeCast World TV platform services use PAS 8.
MySAT uses PAS 8.
Jadeworld uses PAS 8.
The various PanGlobal TV platform services use PAS 8.
Optus Aurora Remote Area Broadcasting Services TV services use Optus C1.
TFCDirect! uses PAS 8.
LBF uses Intelsat 7.
A Sky Net uses Measat 2.
Pacific Media uses AsiaSat 4.

[edit] HFC Cable and VDSL

Foxtel use Telstra's cable in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth.
Optus use their own cable network in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
Austar provide a cable service, again via HFC to Darwin through a cable system partly owned by Austar and the Darwin City Council.
Neighbourhood Cable (merged with TransACT) provides a TV service over their own cable to Geelong, Ballarat and Mildura.
TransACT's TransTV service (merged with Neighbourhood Cable) uses VDSL over a fibre-to-the-kerb network in some suburbs of the A.C.T.

[edit] Defunct Services

Austar previously delivered an analogue MMDS service into selected regional areas, however the system was dumped in the late 1990s/early 2000s. Austar also briefly tested a digital MMDS service on the Gold Coast.
TARBS leased some of Austar's metropolitan licenses for their service.
ECTV and Galaxy also used MMDS.

[edit] See also

Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association (ASTRA)

Contents

[edit] Delivery

[edit] Satellite

[edit] HFC Cable and VDSL

[edit] Defunct Services

[edit] See also