Is sky phasing out the use of satellite dishes and going exclusively to television through broad

[PeterT]

Hopefully there will be a re-think. Or, maybe the option to piggy-back new Astra 1Q if we pay to have dish re-positioned?

[Daniel0210]

@PeterT 

Unfortunately I think your expectations are unrealistic. 

[PeterT]

. . . but that's unfair for the large number of people living in rural communities. We already suffer with poor mobile cell capability.

[TimmyBGood]

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@PeterT wrote:

. . . but that's unfair for the large number of people living in rural communities. 

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Subscription television is not regulated as an 'essential' service, and so providers are not required to be 'fair'.  Access to PSB channels is somewhat different, but so far the current Government appears not to have reached any position on the topic (and regarding satellite in particular and the considerable lead time for new orbital hardware is leaving it rather late in the day to do so)

[TimmyBGood]

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@PeterT wrote:

 Or, maybe the option to piggy-back new Astra 1Q if we pay to have dish re-positioned?

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There are rather more Europeans served from 19.2E than the total (and diminishing) market for Sky and Freesat in the UK and ROI at 28.2E so the maths on that doesn't really work.  Realistically it appears that Comcast isn't particularly interested in being in the satellite television business: as I've frequently observed in these forums they are historically a cable television company.

[Invisiblename]

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@PeterT wrote:

. . . but that's unfair for the large number of people living in rural communities. We already suffer with poor mobile cell capability.

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Unfortunately when has "fairness" ever come into it for commercial decisions by big companies?

[Chodley]

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@PeterT wrote:

. . . but that's unfair for the large number of people living in rural communities. We already suffer with poor mobile cell capability.

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Starlink (at a price) and eventually fibre optic rollout should cover that for most places.