On 13/04/2008, Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.co.uk wrote:
Although the whole ISP's asking for kickback from the beeb to supplement their service costs is a slippery slope. As a licence fee payer I would strongly object to some of my fee going to ISP's that have oversubscribed their systems, even more so when it is for a system to which I have limited access because the BBC won't release a linux client.
And yet you presumably have no problem with the BBC paying Eutelsat or the terrestrial equivalent to transmit programs.
There was a broadband provider price war and IMO many providers are selling their services at a price that is unsustainable if people actually start using it.
We're getting well off topic, here, but is there perhaps a case for a publicly funded 'base' service, for say SD PSB channels, and an individual funded services (via the ISP) for, e.g. multi-channel or HD channels.
Greg