Comments on: iPlayer Usage Effect - A Bandwidth Explosion

By: tim rose

tim rose — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:37:36 +0000

Simple innit? Supply and demand rules. Use more bandwidth, pay more money! Want to watch that missed program? Either buy a PVR, wait for the repeat or pay through the nose.

I think we are getting used to a cheap internet and expecting too much of it. Soon we'll have HD streaming with dolby 5.1 and unless there is a cosst per byte per minute business model, we'll be having this discussion again in two years.

By: Panic {RE}_Programming » Blog Archive » Digging Deeper::Your Guide to Net Neutrality

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:49:50 +0000

[...] ISPs started noticing large jumps in bandwidth usage by the public. One ISP in the UK, PlusNet, reported the following surge for January usage vs. [...]

By: News Feed :: Digging Deeper::Your Guide to Net Neutrality

News Feed :: Digging Deeper::Your Guide to Net Neutrality — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:41:43 +0000

[...] ISPs started noticing large jumps in bandwidth usage by the public. One ISP in the UK, PlusNet, reported the following surge for January usage vs. [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:42:43 +0000

So lets get this straight, BT Wholesale has a monopoly on backhaul. The isps have no other options but pay BT's charges. BT is making a massive profit from this, but has not seen fit to upgrade its backhaul network to provide more bandwidth and less cost / GB. Isnt this a case for the ISPs to take their concerns to OFCOM, instead of just whining about customers using the service they have paid for?

By: L’Internet des Objets » Blog Archive » BBC iPlayer Bumps Usage of Streaming by 62% in one Month

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:29:59 +0000

[...] in December of 2007. Early indications were that it had done well from the very beginning, and now this blog from UK ISP Plus.Net show that traffic has spiked significantly this year. The per-user streaming [...]

By: Taco

Taco — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:06:16 +0000

@ Lennie

You said "And I think they, the dutch national TV, is even connected to an Internet Exchange, you can peer with them (so no transit costs, just hardware/connections)."

Some people who posted here needs to re-read what the staff are saying, They HAVE to pay to send the data from PlusNETs network OVER, note.. OVER BTs network, which is where the cost is!!!

Too many people have re-said the same thing over and over again here without reading what the staff have had to repeat!.

By: iPlayer; licene fee subsidies | Over The Counter Culture

iPlayer; licene fee subsidies | Over The Counter Culture — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:05:59 +0000

[...] boosted the average Internet consumption of those people as they watch more video than ever<>. This is costing ISPs money <>. If the BBC doesn’t give the ISPs the money to match [...]

By: Technology News & Reviews | Business Technology News and Comparison at IT PRO

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:44:56 +0000

[...] I found this whole blog particularly fascinating, as it is not usual to find an ISP that is this open about their business (a number of their other entries are well worth a read, particularly this one on the impact of the iPlayer on their streaming traffic). [...]

By: The cost of IPTV « Content Negotiable

The cost of IPTV « Content Negotiable — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:59:19 +0000

[...] are also looking at this and have put out some figures based on measurements from Plus.net. I’m not going to reproduce the figures here, so I’d advise having a look over them [...]

By: SteveMD

SteveMD — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:02:10 +0000

I'm no expert, but wouldn't charging, say a penny for every email help? It is cheap enough not to harm most users, but would deter the bulk spammers and free up a lot of bandwidth.