It will ONLY happen if Optus give them I am guessing two transponders for the cost of one, else its so cost prohibative.<br /><br />Ecomomics dictate you pay millions for transponders per year, that equals a certain cost per customer. You have to pay programming costs out of that as well.<br /><br />If you have to basically start again, that means potential new installs, certainly a cost for repointing and replacing receivers (thats porovided you purchased the existing equipment else its a reinstall).<br /><br />Means it takes time to install a new client base, its like starting all over again, so running costs are critical. So your initial customer base is zero...<br /><br />The ball is in Optus court, but if they do allow such a cheap deal, opens the doors for others also, only time will tell.<br /><br />Also your doubling space segment costs. back in the days of Thaicom 3 / PAS 10 there was no high power Ku into Australia so you HAD to rebroadcast everything again.<br /><br />Why would you do that again instead of coming straight off NSS 6? You have to have NSS 6 to bring in signals. Its already high power, you just want to spend mega bucks for a few sites in the East that have problems with receiving NSS 6.<br /><br />People have to remember your paying money out per year like telephone numbers for transponders. After all it has to make money...