Delivery

Satellite

• Foxtel and Austar both utilise 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.

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HFC Cable

• Foxtel utilise Telstra's cable in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane/Gold Coast, Adelaide and Perth.
• Optus utilise 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.

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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 1990's/early 2000's. Austar also briefly tested a digital MMDS service on the Gold Coast.
• TARBS leased some of Austar's metropolitan licences for their service.
• ECTV and Galaxy also used MMDS.

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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.

See also

• Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association (ASTRA)