Ofcom Backs The BBC Against ISPs April 26, 2008

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Telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has told MPs that the BBC should not be forced to pay to upgrade the UK’s broadband networks just because its iPlayer service has proved so successful.

Ofcom chief executive Ed Richards, speaking to a session of the Commons Culture, Media & Sport and Business and Enterprise committees, said:

“I am not convinced myself that the right answer to that is to get the BBC to pay for the iPlayer. It is not necessarily the only way it can happen and it is not necessarily the way we would anticipate it will happen.”