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iPlayer costs us money claim ISPs
Posted by: eusty on Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 09:15 AM
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It seems that the predictions that the iPlayer would
affect
bandwidth and increase data usage may have been not far off the mark. Data
released by one ISP, PlusNet, shows that it's costs per user tripled in the
first full month since the release of the iPlayer back on Christmas day. The
streaming cost per user has risen from 6.1p a month to 18.3p in January, it this
is a common value amongst ISPs then it's claimed that the iPlayer has increased
the cost to the market as a whole in the region of £1m in it's first month.
Some ISPs have claimed that they will have to resort to traffic shaping,
although some who already do have found that it's not the
easy option.
The BBC claimed that the iPlayer is good for the broadband industry and has a
"negligible impact on the UK internet infrastructure".
| "There may be a win-win for the industry
where services like iPlayer drive demand from users for broadband
access in the first place, and for higher bandwidth packages, and
for (paid-for) quality-of-service guarantees from the ISPs,"
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| Ashley Highfield BBC director of
future media and technology |
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