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Which sattalite channels could be watched in Australia ?

This is a bit broad question but thanks to people at http://www.lyngsat-maps.com/ who have made it possible for us to find it out in easy steps: This process can be divided into two sections (A) Selecting by providers in the region (B) Selecting by the channels you want to watch ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Selecting by providers in the region ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There are different provided in every country to provide different channels, they are usually called carriers. You can find the list of the carries for Australia at http://www.lyngsat-address.com/provider/Australia.html after looking at their respective web sites you can decide what do you want to. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Selecting by the channels you want to watch ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You can also find out what channels you want to watch, which sattalite carries it, is it free or paid ? and what kind of dish would you need ? Following is an example of free TV channels fr

Would Tata Sky work in Australia ?

So far (at least when I am writing this) to my understaning TataSky could not work in Australia. How do I know ? Its actually pretty simple with the help of few web sites from the same provider. Step 1 : Find out the provider in our case its Tata Sky Step 2: Find out which satellites it use? http://www.lyngsat-address.com/tt/Tata-Sky.html http://www.lyngsat.com/Insat-4A.html Step 3: Now we know that Tata Sky uses Insat 4A for its transmission. Its time to find out footprints of this sattalite. Use the following link: http://www.lyngsat-maps.com/maps/in4a_ecc.html Step 4: In the footprints screen we could see that this particular satalite does not have footprints on Australia so we could not watch TataSky, UNLESS in future Tata Sky also broadcast on another satalite which has footprints in Australia (expecially the region you are in)