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Originally Posted by Legendkiller2k
2030 6G will be rolling out lol Vodafone are already testing, if and it's a very big if they turned of terrestial tv then i think satellite would be the option over broadband tv.
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Counter intuitively, from an energy impact point of view terrestrial should be the favoured broadcast medium. Home devices use a fraction of the energy to receive Freeview than satellite. And terrestrial transmitters are a lot more energy efficient than the distribution chain via satellite (and streaming is actually the worst of the lot).
The Beeb did some research a couple of years ago.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2020-0...ming-broadcast
Having said all that, I suspect that satellite probably best reaches the places fast broadband still won’t have done by the early 2030s, so if they want to keep a one-way broadcast channel open to cover those without the ability to stream, satellite will be it.
It’s worth noting in all of this that they’re not proposing abandoning their broadcast schedule - just reducing the number of ways they deliver it to the single most flexible option, which in the long run has to be internet because it’s the only one that fully integrates two-way transmission and on-demand ability.