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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
The broadband rollout should be finished by then! Where do you think the terrestrials will go if broadcast frequencies are no longer available?
If the terrestrials go IPTV, you can bet your life that Sky won’t continue to offer TV channels as they exist now.
I can’t see Sky keeping their satellite system going forever. It must be far cheaper to use IPTV than keep paying for all that transponder space for a start.
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Chris, you and others have been poo-pooing the idea of streaming becoming the most favoured means of access to content and eventually taking over altogether for many years. You even said at one stage that we didn’t have sufficient electricity supplies to provide large scale on demand programming.
It’s not going to happen today or tomorrow, but it will happen, and it’s the government’s intention that the whole country will be broadband connected over the next few years.
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This bit in bold isn’t actually relevant. You’re portraying us as taking an extreme stance - which of course we are not. Almost everyone, perhaps even everyone, accepts on demand growth is happening and will continue. We simply don’t see it reaching 100% in the completely arbitrary timescale you present.
As for the Government’s broadband aspirations they have no such thing as a plan for the “whole country”, and it’d be generous to call what plans they do have as deliverable “in the next few years”.
https://www.gov.uk/government/public...update#summary
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Very Hard to Reach Premises
Our procurements will maximise the coverage of gigabit-capable infrastructure, however we know that it will be unaffordable to provide gigabit coverage to all premises in the UK.
For those very hard to reach (VHTR) premises that will not be reached through the Project Gigabit procurements, the government is today publishing its response to the call for evidence on improving connectivity for very hard to reach premises — summarising the information received by respondents and the most frequently expressed points of view. This response is the first step in delivering improved connectivity to these premises and further policy proposals will be set out in due course.
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