Streaming radio on your phone: not for long?
Posted on Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 at 5:26pm. #
O2 sent me, the other month, a text reminding me that I could connect to BT Openzone and The Cloud wifi points on my iPhone for free.
Rogers and Telus do the same thing in Canada – moving data away from the network to the fixed-line internet.
And now, AT&T are admitting that their networks are under pressure, and that some form of usage-based pricing for data is inevitable.
If you work at a radio station, you have a transmitter that reaches hundreds of thousands of people at the same time. That’s your USP. And broadcast radio works excellently in portable, mobile, situations.
When mobile operators are actively moving you off their network, and now contemplating usage-based pricing – it might be foolish to count on 3G streaming for radio’s long-term future.




Thank you for coming to NPR, James! We really liked your talk. The day after your presentation our interns at NPR showed us their Intern edition show. Many of us remembered you. Is this how radio will be, sound, look like? Here’s the link: http://www.npr.org/internedition/fall09/
Laura Soto-Barra
NPR Senior Librarian