Fibre if you read that other post with Press Release it says they signed with MCI for fibre capacity for up to 50 channels.<br /><br />As for the full transponder cut in half.. thats 27mhz a MAXIMUM of 16 channels if using very low bitrates (stat muxing)<br /><br />Sky NZ usually stick no more than 8 on theirs plus misc other bits and pieces, data,radio interactive.<br /><br />TVNZ are looking at 8 on each of their 2 half transponders. Seems a good number in terms of quality