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Originally Posted by pip08456
All the more reason to move to streaming. Auction off the UHF spectrum and use the money to provide everyone in the UK access to a connection that will support streaming of content at a resonable price (we ain't talking 200mb connections here, just enough so they can still watch Corry.Emmerdale, Eastenders, big Brother and all the other important programmes of that ilk!)
Why pay money to satellite providers when the internet will provide the same if not more?
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Because you would still end up relying on satellite for a chunk of rural Britain where you can't deliver fibre (or even copper DSL) and anywhere you might want portable or temporary coverage (dishes are increasingly popular on motor homes for example), and if you insist on doing it over IP then it would be satellite of the highly expensive two-way kind.
Broadcast satellite TV isn't affected by local bandwidth limitations. You can run unlimited receivers at any location, no matter how remote, without any fixed infrastructure on the ground.
It will be a very long time before all British homes get sufficient Internet bandwidth to run even 2 HDTVs simultaneously. Yet every home and caravan site in the country can receive 11 HD channels free to air right now in the Freesat EPG (except for the few that are built snug to the side of a north facing valley).