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Olympic Review - The Economic Effects

September 11th, 2008 at 18:48 by Dave Tomlinson

The Olympics are over for another four years and the Great Britain has returned with the best haul of medals in a century. The feel good factor that generates cannot easily calculated. What we can calculate though is how much time people have spent watching the Olympics. More…

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Bolt's 200m Record an iPlayer Hit

August 20th, 2008 at 17:11 by Dave Tomlinson

Congratulations to Jamaica’s Usain Bolt who has just added the 200m Olympic gold to his collection with a new world record time of 19.3s.

Plusnet customers “tuned in” via the BBC’s iPlayer to see the victory; we saw an increase in traffic from iPlayer of around 250Mbps just before the start of the race going from just under 700Mbps to 934Mbps falling just short of yesterday’s high of 954Mbps of iPlayer traffic. More…

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Breaking News - Olympics Streaming via iPlayer

August 8th, 2008 at 15:26 by Dave Tomlinson

We’ve just noticed a big spike in iPlayer traffic. I think it’s fairly easy to conclude that the traffic is people watching the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.

We are currently seeing around 600Mbps of iPlayer traffic, with the Olympics stream being roughly 430kbps per customer when you deduct off the normal volume of iPlayer traffic around 1,500 of our customers are watching the Olympic’s via their broadband connections. More…

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Business Users like the Golf - The Open streaming on the BBC

July 18th, 2008 at 17:40 by Dave Tomlinson

The Open began yesterday and we noticed a big increase in traffic coming from iPlayer in the morning and afternoon. The BBC website is streaming live coverage of The Open (using the same technology as iPlayer) so it’s natural to assume that the majority of that increase in traffic is from people watching the golf. More…

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More Record Breaking Streaming and the Latest iPlayer News

July 17th, 2008 at 10:21 by Dave Tomlinson

It’s been a little while since we posted an update about the latest happenings on the network and particular what’s happening with streaming usage. We’ll start as usual with a few of headlines then move on with a bit more detail: More…

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PlusNet in the news 6th June 08

June 6th, 2008 at 10:18 by Neil Armstrong

I thought it might be interesting to post a round up of the places where PlusNet has been in the news this week, with a short reaction to each story.

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PlusNet's plans for 2008/09

April 28th, 2008 at 16:54 by Neil Armstrong

PlusNets Plans for 08/09Each year, we publish what we plan to do over the course of the year. You can see what we set out to do last year in our Plans for 2007 post and what we actually did in our update. We might have bitten off more than we could chew…

Here is a quick review of last year and a view of our plans for the next 12 months. So read on to find out what’s coming up More…

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BBC iPlayer

A few weeks ago Ashley Highfield, former Director of Future Media & Technology at the BBC, posted an article called the “Hidden Costs” of Watching TV Online. It makes for an interesting read and is a good starting point for having a debate on this topic. Ashley raised 19 potential ‘actions’ although stressed that these weren’t necessarily his opinion. More…

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BBC iPlayer available on Wii

April 10th, 2008 at 09:00 by Neil Armstrong

The BBC announced yesterday on their Internet blog that the BBC iPlayer will soon be available on the Nintendo Wii.

We’re big Wii fans here and this is yet another reason to buy one :-)

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Will BBC iPlayer usage break the Internet? - The bandwidth timebomb!

February 22nd, 2008 at 15:07 by Dave Tomlinson

BBC iPlayerSince we published the iPlayer Usage Effect blog we’ve been doing a bit more analysis of the usage and reading up on what other people are writing.

As before we’ll have a couple of headlines.

  • iPlayer usage is continuing to grow but at a slightly lower rate, up between 10% and 25% per hour comparing last week with the same week in January.
  • iPlayer streaming outnumbers downloads by 8 to 1.

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