Terrestrial Digital TV: UK troubles

[ember]

As many UK people on this forum know, ITV Digital (UKs only terrestrial Digital TV provider)has gone into administration. The result being - those of us with Digi-boxes cannot obtain subscription channels. Although, in the UK, as we all pay for a TV license we still have the "free-to-air" channels.
My question to the rest of the world is: do you have terrestrial TV providers? If so, is it a competitive format (Satellite is the dominant Digital format in the UK) and does it have a future?
I'd be interested to hear others comments.

[Dufferoon]

Here in Turkey we have terrestrial TV but it falls foul as usual of the quantity/quality tradeoff. The vast majority of terrestrial transmitters are just repeaters for satellite stations.
Up till 1991 there was only one, government-controlled TV channel in Turkey. Can you believe that? Then Star started transmitting from studios in Germany over the satellite, the Turkish government couldn't stop them, so they had to open the floodgates and allow private stations to operate from here. So at least satellite allows freedom of speech in some cases. We all thought we were going to be swamped by porn stations on the satellite but there are actually very few of them now because nobody made any money out of them. The same is true of porn websites actually. There is enough free stuff out there to satisfy anybody's needs.
Terrestrial digital failed partly because it tried the same flogging-a-dead-horse tactics but also because it inherited all the physical problems of analogue terrestrial. Which is easier to maintain? One admittedly expensive satellite, or hundreds of transmitters, most of which by their very nature are stuck on the tops of very windy, rainy hills?
So I think satellite is ok. We haven't signed the future away to Murdoch yet, there is still the Beeb, and anyone who wants to can buy their own slot on another satellite.