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Originally Posted by Chris
They should announce a 10 year plan to move the entire UK tv broadcast infrastructure to satellite, then auction off all the UHF spectrum. Satellite coverage is near ubiquitous and the dishes are unobtrusive. A healthy selection of TV sets in the uk marketplace already have sat receivers built in so its not even a major ask for the manufacturers to do it.
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I think it would have been a sensible idea but the train has already left the station. The big opportunity to do this was instead of the Freeview switchover from analogue and I don't think it will be popular with the public. Instead, I think the capacity available to Freeview will be chipped away but compression technology will ensure that the number of channels remain whilst OTT channels rise until they become the norm. Satellite technology now would just be an intermediate one.