Subscription television in Australia

Delivery

Satellite

• Foxtel and Austar both use 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 RABS TV services use Optus C1.
• TFCDirect! uses PAS 8.
• LBF uses Intelsat 7.
• A Sky Net uses Measat 2.
• Pacific Media uses AsiaSat 4.

HFC Cable

• Foxtel use Telstra's cable in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth.
• Optus use 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.

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

See also

• Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association (ASTRA)