A Pattern of TV Holes

By: matturn (Registered ) on 26-10-2007 12:14

A lack of analogue TV reception is not unknown in inner-suburban areas. Analogue Channel Seven is completely unavailable in parts of North Melbourne, for instance. 
 
The problem is worst when a suburb is on the opposite side of the city to that city's main transmitter. North Melbourne opposes Mt Dandenong, New Farm opposes Mt Coot-tha. 
 
South Yarra, one of Melbourne's most prosperous suburbs, (and by no means remote), suffered from poor analogue reception until it got it's own set of transmitters. 
 
The closest parallel to broadband provision probably lies in the pair-gain areas of cities. There are parts of every city, large and small, where people cannot receive DSL because of the way Telstra wired their area at some stage in the past. I would expect that no parts of South Yarra suffered this for long, if at all.

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