The DBS services gave Sky the opportunity to offer its customers more channels and interactive options.

Sky switched its DBS service to the Optus D1 satellite on 15 November 2006.

In Canada, the two legal DBS services available are Bell TV and Shaw Direct.

A "DBS service" usually refers to either a commercial service, or a group of free channels available from one orbital position targeting one country.

Then, by the end of 1997, the company anticipated terminating its analog service and encouraged its subscribers to switch to its new digital DBS service.

In 1991 Primestar launched as the first North American DBS service.

Voom launched as a DBS (direct broadcast satellite) service in the United States in October 2003.

Moreover, both are expected to offer two-way interactive services that will be difficult for the largely one-way DBS services to match.

However, a consequence of the higher frequency used for DBS services is rain fade where viewers lose signal during a heavy downpour.

In 1994 Hughes Electronics introduced DirecTV, the world's first high-powered DBS service.