I'm sure someone from the iplayer team will answer at some point, but I think the reasoning is because of your phone bill.
Streaming over 3g/hsdpa (even edge) is possible but if your paying per meg, it can start to get expensive quickly and its hard to get a feel for exactly how much your actually using. I just got my phone bill through and I had used 1.4gig of mobile data over the last month. Luckily I'm on Orange's £6 a month for 'unlimited' off peak data, so my total bill was nice and low. You could imagine, if your not on the ball. It could cost you dearly and of course the BBC don't want this. Cheers Ian Forrester This e-mail is: [x] private; [] ask first; [] bloggable Senior Producer, BBC Backstage Room 1044, BBC Manchester BH, Oxford Road, M60 1SJ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: +44 (0)2080083965 mob: +44 (0)7711913293 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Tonge Sent: 12 October 2008 22:28 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] iPhone iPlayer Apologies if this isn't the right place to ask - I emailed the iPlayer team through the website but got a stock "thanks for your feedback" response. So, with that proviso: why are the iPhone iPlayer streams not viewable over 3G? 3G has more than enough bandwidth to cope with the 512k streams, and if I'm in WiFi coverage chances are I'll watch on a laptop. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
