Would you pay £3 a month for BBC iPlayer?

12. For me the license fee is more than worth it. I would only pay extra for the iplayer if they gave us more than the last 7 days of programming.

11. I would just like to add a little about us all paying 3 pounds a month to upgrade the hole system. If every penny went to a special body that spent that every penny on a stait of the art system like in japan like a sort of co op then it would be a worth while venture but if the money was going to the ISP's to give to there sher holders then you can forget it. The long term gains would be worth the money.

10. Customers already pay their ISP for their connection, the BBC will be paying someone for their connection, any extra charge is an attempt to double-dip and get paid twice for one end of the link from BBC to customer.

The problem is that ISPs sold people packages that included higher speeds than the network can actually support all at once, which seemed safe enough when it was unlikely that everyone would all try to use their share at once, but now that high-volume applications like the iPlayer are becoming mainstream they realise they need to upgrade their infrastructure, but decide they'd rather just charge someone more to cover their mistake, and hope that discourages people from using the connection they paid for to its fullest extent.

9. Well whether it's £3 a month or £5 a month it's still cheaper than a terrestrial TV license, and the content is worth a lot more to me in a digital format that I can access whenever it suits me. Besides, BT has a LOT more to answer for than just this stupid petty little license fee squabble. How about nudging the ISP giant over their traffic shaping? There are a lot more ISP's out there, which is why even if BT want to try and make their own little BT subnet, the users who don't like it have free will to change over to another ISP. Noone is making you use BT. I changed ISP and couldn't be happier with my decision.

8. Always happy to pay the licence fee. Totally against this top-up, though, unless I can get a discount for not using other BBC services (radio, children's TV, etc.)

7. I live in Peru and would quite happily pay way more than this to get iPlayer. Not getting the BBC here really shows how much value for money the channel is so having to pay a small amount for replays is actually a bargain.

Try some of my local spanish language channels to get the idea. Seriously be worth it for Question Time once a week!!!

6. I think not! With my ISP which happens to be BT, I already pay for unlimited downloads, and any idea to pay more is a disgrace! Yes i know they will whinged about fair usage but unlimited should mean unlimited.

5. I dont get it, i dont use BT but whats there band width limit, say 10GB. Say i just surf the web and use all 10gb that's ok but its not ok if i use it on iplayer. it sounds like extortion to me "if you dont pay us we will block your connection" what about the thousands of other streaming web sites, where will it end. So BT are going to have there own version of the internet, that providers will have to pay to be allowed on? what if the BBC tells them to get lost, whos going to lose out in the long run the BBC dont make profit from the iplayer but BT does.

If im allowed 10gb then surly what its used on is irrelevant so if i was streaming from some random Japanese manga site is BT going to go to them asking them to pay for the privilege of having my custom?

What about sony and microsoft, HD down loads and massif game downloads. Its ridicules who is going to decide what internet sites pay and what ones don't.

BT have to either charge more or lower there download limit, they give you a limit then when people start to use it there up in arms about it. Its just so typical of the telecommunications industry.

They have to except this is the now and future of the internet and change there tariffs accordingly. For those that only want very light usage should have there own tariff and the rest of even though i hate to say it will have to pay more. What there suggesting is unfair and will become more and more unfeasible in the coming months and years.

4. @jl45: Do you listen to BBC radio and access the BBC websites? Thought you did...

3. So. on one hand, you have various bodies of the government trying to stem the tide of piracy, and on the other hand, you have some mavericks at ofcom justifying illegal downloading by endorsing a price that should, by all rights, and is included in an extortionate licence fee - bravo ofcom, bravo.

2. We already pay enough for BBC's largely dire output so to shell out extra for the one or two programmes actually worth watching is an outrageous suggestion.

1. As long as only users of iplayer pay for it I am ok. I have never used it and as far as I am concerned the ISP can block me from ever using.

same goes for the TV licence and the BBCs push to force internet users to pay the licence if they dont have a TV licence. I dont have or watch a TV and I resent the fact that I am being forced to pay for BBC when I do not use nor even care about its service.