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Just seen one of Branson’s stooges on BBC Breakfast extolling the virtues of their 50MB offering. Surely if this is rolled out we will get super fast live pics directly onto the PC!
At the moment there must be quite a few people in the offices of PP, BF and the rest of em playing IR with their raw streams. With 50MB could we get near instant coverage for all. This could signal a mass migration by the on-course brigade and the exchange shop players.
Taking it further we could see IR accounting for the majority of money traded if the regular punters felt they were betting on a level playing field. You only had to see the positive effects of ATR Extra a few years ago.
Betfair could have addressed the fast pics issue years ago if they had wanted to. Instead they decided to get a piece of the action themselves though the premium charge.
Dont see that changing anytime soon, 50 meg internet or not.
There have been two instances where maybe inadvertently stay at home punters had fast pics. When RUK first launched free to air the pics were ahead of SIS. Subsequently ATR Extra was ahead of SIS as well.
I do agree that it is mighty strange that Betfair seem to have backed off finding a solution. There was also the story about Betfair being blocked from sponsoring RUK so it could be a free to air channel. Did Mark Davies ever have anything to say on the subject as he comes across as relatively straight talking.
There have been two instances where maybe inadvertently stay at home punters had fast pics. When RUK first launched free to air the pics were ahead of SIS. Subsequently ATR Extra was ahead of SIS as well.
"Had" being the operative word.
I have been on 50MB Broadband for over a year now, and I am waiting for Virgin Media to update the uploads speeds in Swindon to 5MB.
The 50MB Broadband is not as good as Virgin Media makes out just read some of the posts on their Community forum.
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I have downloaded a 1GB film in 8 minutes
The point is that as the technology for instant pics is now in existence what excuse is there for Betfair not to act. Surely a £1.6BN business dosen’t need to rely on selling an a flawed in running product to innocent punters.
does anyone really believe that BF can’t afford RUK pics as well?
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