And a little cheer just went up around the nation….
Optus has at last confirmed it will launch its D3 satellite, which will be used to provide more Pay TV channels, in mid-August.
“We are especially excited about Optus D3 because, for the first time in a decade, the new satellite will increase Optus’ fleet capacity by more than 30%, providing new business opportunities in broadcast television, direct-to-home market, new data services and services bundling,” said Paul Sheridan director of Optus Satellite.
Foxtel, which intends launching more than 20 new channels this year, will be the largest customer of the new satellite.
Satellite capacity issues have also been an ongoing problem to customers in some cities who view via satellite connection rather than cable.
The Optus D3 will be launched by an Ariane-5 rocket from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana.
Source: The Australian
Darryn, take a look at the title of this blog. Has what to do with mobile phones?
Depends where you live and whether you are satellite or cable, hence many looking forward to the new satellite.
Alex, Foxtel doesn’t rebroadcast Channel Seven? This is news to me.
Itsross, first off do not presume you have a right to say where i may post. 2ndly that “minor spread” affected 300,000 users. 3rd it was a hardware issue, so it was highly appropiate to this thread
Finally I can move the old SD Set Top Box out to the bedroom!!!
Sick of having to use two systems just to see Ch 7
Does this finally mean that Foxtel customers finally will get Channel Seven?
Darryn I don’t see what a small spread 3G outage has to do with a Satellite going up. Wrong place.
“Does an Austar customer say yay to this news?”
Austar customers are ROFL at this….how many years behind Foxtel are they in delivering not only HD but standard channels as well – 111 hits being the latest example.
& in the meantime wollongong users lost phone/mobilenet for 14 hours on 3g. Don’t see any press releases nor explations on that 2 day from optus
Yay
Goes up on August 18th, if no more delays are met.
After testing, you would likely see October and November being the timeframe for the new channels.
Austar are hoping to have their HD MyStar out by mid-November now apparently.
Hooray!!! Now how long til we can get signals from it?
Woooooo!
About time. I’m expecting to hear that OneHD (or SD) will be provided for us satellite people…?
So when can they start pumping stuff into her?
(that’s what he said)
foxtel could of provide its 25 new channels by the end of the year by now if this satellite when up and it was ment to back in march i think, but anyways its good that it is going to go up next month and im looking forward to all the new foxtel channels and when the government starts their FTA satellite service next year.
Does an Austar customer say yay to this news?
Finally!