Should the BBC be liable for iPlayer bandwidth costs?

[Ian]

Here's the link to the article at the BBC :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7336940.stm

Basically, ISP's want the BBC to help pay for network bandwidth improvements because services like iPlayer are resource heavy.

I don't see why they should help pay, as they are simply offering a service that the internet is more than capable of facilitating. Loads of sites (i.e. YouTube) offer streaming video that I'd bet costs ISPs more than the BBC iPlayer, but you wouldn't expect them to pay.

 

[muckshifter]

"The question is about whether we invest in extra capacity or go to the consumer and ask them to pay a BBC tax,"

Get your fingers out of your ass and invest in extra capacity.

ISPs needed to stop using the term 'unlimited' to describe their services and make it clear that if people wanted to watch hours of downloaded video content they would have to pay a higher tariff

I'll agree with that.


If my "internet" slows down, I blame my ISP.

 

[Abarbarian]

The heck we should pay more for our licence so that ISP's can profit from it .

 

[michael555]

So does this mean youtube will have to pay aswell.


This is all down to your isp and not the bbc.

Who came up with this mad idea in the first place?