BBC iPlayer Raises Network Cost Problems

By Christopher Nickson
April 09, 2008

British ISPs says that the BBC should pay part of the costs necessary to upgrade the networks, since the iPlayer has created such a strain.

Introduced with much fanfare to Britain at Christmas, the BBC’s iPlayer service, which allows users to stream progams or download them to watch within 30 days, has come under heavy fire from the nation’s Internet service providers (IPSs). They believe that the success of the service has put a huge strain on their resources, and that the BBC – which is funded by the taxpayer – should bear some of the cost of upgrading networks to cope with increased traffic. Unsurprisingly, the BBC disagrees. In its first month alone, a million people used iPlayer, downloading over 3.5 million programs. The problem is that, as more and more people use this and similar services, networks need to be upgraded – government body Ofcom has estimated ...

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