Occasional Use (OU) is the booking model behind nearly all live sports and event distribution worldwide. Instead of owning satellites, teleports, or fiber networks, broadcasters book transmission capacity that someone else already owns, for the exact window a single event needs.
This video covers what actually gets booked in an OU deal: satellite transponder capacity measured in megahertz and hours, teleport uplink and downlink slots, and increasingly fiber or IP circuits for hybrid delivery. Providers typically offer windows from as little as 15 minutes to about a month, confirmed on short notice rather than through a long procurement cycle. Global sports rights spending reached $67.34 billion in 2026, up 9.6% from 2025, and nearly all of that content still has to physically leave the venue this way.
iKOMG OU packages worldwide transponder access, its own teleports in Rome and Ljubljana, fiber and IP delivery across five continents, and 24/7 network monitoring into a single relationship — plus remote commentary through a partnership with Spalk — so a broadcaster gets one booking instead of separate contracts with each provider.
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