Monday, December 12

BBC declares war on 3G bandwidth

iOS users (you flash gits) can now stream iPlayer content to their iPhones or iPads over 3G. iSay...


Ok that wasn't funny. Here's what the BBC had to say, although this is the BBC news report on the BBC released information, which is something slightly hard to get ones head around but means, in theory, it's an outsiders opinion of it.
The BBC said it had worked closely with network operators, but analysts fear it could put their systems under strain.
"One potential danger is that people are going to run up unexpectedly high data bills, and the other is the strain that this is going to put on the system if a lot of people start streaming in this way," said Neil McCartney, a telecoms analyst at McCartney media.
"The system would default to prioritise voice calls, so it wouldn't affect voice calls, but it would mean that people would be unable to use their data services."
The service comes to appleTV devices too, but no-one has those do they?

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