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Year-over-year, according to VideoCensus, total online video streams were up 34.8%, which amounts to a whopping 10,043,049,000 streams in May.

Everybody loves to fight about online video stats, but even if 34.8% is off by half, it’s still an impressive number. Most businesses would love a 17% increase in use of their product, but, as [...]

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Breaking news!

by John Luther on June 12, 2009

End users like simple pricing models (hence success of flat rate) but that some ‘heavy users’ will require a variable rate pricing scheme to cover the demands they make; Bandwidth is not free and costs to Telcos and ISPs will continue to rise as video traffic grows;

Emphasis by your humble author. Read the summary results from [...]

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Hat tip to a regular reader who sent us this story in the Financial Times.

BT calls for BBC to pay for iPlayer costs

…Mr Petter [of BT] said video sites consuming bandwidth was a “much bigger issue than the BBC iPlayer, it’s true of all forms of video content coming across the web. It’s becoming a [...]

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