[Stooky Bill]

The cost of installing a 512mb line, full fibre, on a 12 month business contract (and the cost of paying a full year) is much less than a sat truck and sat time. Not to mention the fact trucks can be hard to get hold of on busy periods.

Though presably not as cheap as a BBC owned and operated sat truck using BBC satellite space. That's essentially free, but of course can only do a handful of counts. I assume ITN and Sky have similar permanent SNG provision


It'll be interesting to see how less reliant the broadcasters will be on satellite compared with previous elections. Last time round there a lot of Dutch and French trucks being used. But technology and the industry has changed a lot in the last 4 years. There's still the need for some satellite but IP has improved a lot.