Abstract
A Broadcasting Review Board was created in Hong Kong during the early 1980s and given the task of setting out proposals for the future of broadcasting in the territory. One of its key recommendations was that Hong Kong should have cable television. At that time, it was clear that there would be rapid convergence between the delivery technologies for telecoms and for video services and this should be taken into account. After much delay the government eventually decided, in 1990, to offer a Subscription Television Licence (STL), as well as some Fixed Network Telecommunications Service Licences. The STL was eventually offered to Wharf Cable. The philosophy adopted from the outset by Wharf was to use a Microwave Multipoint Distribution System (MMDS), and subsequently to replace this with a cable system based on the use of an optical fibre network.
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