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Originally Posted by Horizon
Spiderplant is the person who knows the best about VM's tv network. Perhaps he may see this thread and chip in. I cannot say with certainty whether it would be cheaper or not for VM to move away from providing masses of linear channels to using mainly on demand services instead.
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With a load of paid-for coax already in the ground, providing shared broadcast services is effectively 'free', compared with the considerable expense of putting in switching equipment.
But nobody would build an HFC network from scratch these data. With a new-build fibre network, I'm not sure.