ISPs likely to be even more unhappy as BBC launches live TV streamed over Internet
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We’re used to the notion that most essential services in the UK have a pronounced lean to them, in metaphorical terms at least—just like the famous tower of Pisa, not quite falling down but definitely not altogether right. The trains are but one example, another being the NHS. But can we expect the country’s Internet infrastructure to well and truly collapse, now that the Beeb has made its TV channels available to view live on the Internet? Many Internet Service Providers ( ISPs) would say yes. They’ve been issuing dire warnings and predictions for many months over the impact of the BBC’s on-demand video-and-radio service, iPlayer.
What effect on bandwidth and data traffic speeds will hundreds of thousands of households around the nation have when they turn their laptops into full-on portable TVs?
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