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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]