Digital TV Switchover Australia - Viewer Access Satellite Television

One of the Australian Government’s objectives in the switch to digital TV is to address, as much as possible, long-standing issues in regional and remote areas of Australia where residents have poor, or in some cases, no access to terrestrially broadcast TV services.

The VAST service is a first class direct-to-home digital TV satellite service which covers all of Australia. For the first time, viewers who cannot receive digital services from the terrestrial transmitters that serve their area will have access to a reliable free-to-air satellite TV service which delivers the full range of digital channels.