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Thanks for all your questions and comments on my earlier post about audio-on-demand for the iPhone. Rather than answer them all independently, here are answers to some common questions: Is audio-on-demand only available on the iPhone? iPlayer video and audio-on-demand will also be available on the Nokia N96, which Nokia is due to release on 1 October (see Matthew Postgate's previous post ). We initially launched this service on the iPhone as it's a very popular device amongst our audio and music audiences, but the BBC's new media teams are working hard to bring audio-on-demand to other mobile devices in the very near future. Can I stream live BBC radio on the iPhone? The iPhone is currently only available on the O2 network in the UK and continuous streaming of audio and video content is not permitted under the terms of O2's flat-rate packages. We're currently working on supporting live streaming when you're connected via wifi. Can I stream live BBC radio on other mobile devices? I would love to make iPlayer available on all mobile devices but as the media support and browser functionalities vary so widely, this may take some time. Where we can be certain that a WiFi connection is being used, and that this connection is also used by the device's media player software, then it's already possible to access live streams. For more details see here . Unfortunately, many mobile devices swap to 3G or GPRS connections without informing their us ...
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Thanks for all your questions and comments on my earlier post about audio-on-demand for the iPhone. Rather than answer them all independently, here are answers to some common questions: Is audio-on-demand only available on the iPhone? iPlayer video and audio-on-demand will also be available on the Nokia N96, which Nokia is due to release on 1 October (see Matthew Postgate's previous post ). We initially launched this service on the iPhone as it's a very popular device amongst our audio and music audiences, but the BBC's new media teams are working hard to bring audio-on-demand to other mobile devices in the very near future. Can I stream live BBC radio on the iPhone? The iPhone is currently only available on the O2 network in the UK and continuous streaming of audio and video content is not permitted under the terms of O2's flat-rate packages. We're currently working on supporting live streaming when you're connected via wifi. Can I stream live BBC radio on other mobile devices? I would love to make iPlayer available on all mobile devices but as the media support and browser functionalities vary so widely, this may take some time. Where we can be certain that a WiFi connection is being used, and that this connection is also used by the device's media player software, then it's already possible to access live streams. For more details see here . Unfortunately, many mobile devices swap to 3G or GPRS connections without informing their us ...