</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by apsattv:<br /><strong> Well they need 1200 paying $35 a month<br />$42000 a month<br /><br />That has to cover bringing the signal from the other side of the planet. Maybe via 76.5E hmmm.. Plus capacity on B3 (bandwidth inside Globecasts mux)<br /><br />As for comparing costs I recall a company called Tarb's offering 2 Filipino channels for over $60 a month at one stage... </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">That stage must have been very short stage if existed at all because Fillipino customers were paying same price as everybody else at the time. They could watch all channels broadcasted on TARBS, English channels as well as Filipino ones... I remember that Polish use to have only one channel but when you add all the rest they can watch on TARBS, the deal wasn't too bad...<br />BTW, Armenia is located just north of Iran (Fromer republic of soviet union) so the signal can be transferred on one hop to Australia...