Wrong. ABC Australia Channel Licence is still valid.....most likely channel will get added on Airtel Digital TV soon... International News Channels barring prominent ones like BBC, CNN have to pay carriage fee to operators to be available on a platform,having limited budgets allocated by respective government (most r government run public broadcasters or a JV partnership between private broadcasters of that region + government) for carriage fee payments there is always an issue of such channels opting to be available on fewer platforms particularly DTH which proves more costly