If you wish to own and run your own conditional access you can bank on the following with very basic features<br /><br />$380k - $450k upfront<br />$18 per card<br />$19 for softcell (settop box software licence)<br /><br />Then about $50k per year there after in ongoing support / management fees.<br /><br />If you want any additional feeatures like "Card Marrage, Pairing" +50K upfront.<br /><br /><br />ALL PRICING IN USD>>>><br /><br />FOXTEL/OPTUS/AUSTAR/AUORA all have Ir Softcell embeded into IRD's<br /><br />This is the cheapest platfrom when you have 50,000 - 100,000 + customers you can pay anything from 1,mil and upnwards<br /> <br /> <small>[ 12. December 2004, 09:11 AM: Message edited by: Satfreak ]</small>