This news report at the BBC Technology News website says Virgin Radio claims that "it will be the first station in the world to offer radio via 3G mobiles."
The article goes on to describe the situation where a codec is used, and basically - we're talking about radio being streamed as per usual Internet Radio stations (including Virgin Radio). This very situation was raised by myself in a meeting with independent record labels a couple of years ago - the main issue being : 'why would anyone want to listen if it's going to cost them an obscene amount of money?'
As it'll be classed as data, you'll be streaming data over 3G (and even 2G GPRS) - so the networks will charge you on average £1 a MB. Come on guys. This isn't news, again I have to ask myself who moderates the BBC Technology news site - this is just a Press Release from Virgin Radio, hardly a journalistic view.
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