Drove down to developers and got a copy of the SKY installers letter:-
"TWTB Audio & Visual Ltd Shop 33, Oroklini 7041,
In the last 12 months, Sky have made some changes in their footprint, this has meant that there has been several reductions in bandwidth and signal strengths.
This has had an impact on channels available in Cyprus. 'SKY have lost many channels as well as 75% of radio channels. In my opinion, if this trend follows for the next 12 months then we could be left with little or no sky channels.
At this moment in time, we can not even guarantee that a 4.2mtr dish will receive channel 4. This is because of bandwidth reductions by Sky and the broadcasting of free Arab channels on a neighbouring satellite on the same frequency that has caused black spots across the Island.
Within the last week, Malta, although closer to the UK have lost Film and UK terrestrial channels due to changes in the footprint. This can be rectified by customers upgrading their dish from 2.4mtr to a minimum of 3.2mtr at great cost to themselves again with no guarantees that the new dishes will continue to work. The dish size needed for Cyprus is already 4.2mtr. The previous size of dish needed was a 1.8mtr until Sky reduced the footprint.
It is also possible that Sky may have to remove terrestrial channels from their platform when the UK migrates from analogue to digital terrestrial channels in March 2008. Steve Castle."
Does this make sense to anyone - comments would be appreciated.
Thanks
Daisyanne