</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by Evagoras Paligaridis:<br /><strong> Is Cyprus Sat going to be permanently FTA or is it going to encrypt? There seems to have been a lot of talk about it being FTA, but Phil reckons it will not.<br /><br />A lot of people in the Cypriot community believe it will be FTA. </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Well the way i look at it Cyprus Sat might be free to air in that part of the world but someone has to pay for it to get out to Australia. After all is Cyprus sat paying for it to come to Australia? NO!! So why should UBI have to pay for a service to get it to Australia and give it away free or better still it will be a FTA service but the people that want it in Australia have to pay the Satellite operator to send it here. It is very simple to understand. Why should UBI pay for something to give it to you for nothing? if Cyprus Sat is paying for the signal to come out here fair enough but they are not. It is very easy to understand, in simple terms bandwidth on fibre optic or bandwidth on a satellite cost money and would you give away something for nothing if it cost you money? If you were a truck driver that drove from Sydney to Brisbane someone has to pay for the cartage. Even if the goods out the back are free and because there is 1000km involved who's paying the fuel bill for those free items? It's funny this is so simple to understand and yet people still have trouble understanding it. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="images/icons/default/confused.gif" />