Australian subscription television services
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[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 subscription TV services use Optus B3.
- TFCDirect! uses PAS 8.
- LBF uses Intelsat 7.
- A Sky Net uses Measat 2.
- Pacific Media uses AsiaSat 4.
[edit] HFC Cable
- 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 provides a TV service over their own cable to Geelong, Ballarat and Mildura.
[edit] Other
- TransACT's TransTV service uses VDSL over a fibre-to-the-kerb network.
- 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] Competition
At the moment, competition between the major services is limited to the parts of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane where Optus' cable network competes with Foxtel, the Gold Coast where Austar and Foxtel compete, and Canberra where Foxtel competes with TransACT's TransTV.
