At 11:54 a.m. 2/09/2011, Josh Farrelly wrote:

Because with the current data plans and pricing nobody in their right mind is silly enough to torrent to their phone?

Guess I'm silly. I run 5-6 USB sticks across both Telecom and Vodafone with either 4 or 8GB plans. We use one a day and then swap sticks. Generally we're uploading or live, but on a quiet month I do use them for downloading legit video from UCTV or UWTV or Berlin. Mobile broadband is nice and fast and better than ADSL, especially when you fly into a town for a few hours. We carry big antenna for them. (up to 27dbi) Otherwise you see us parked outside public places uploading via their wifi :-) In Hamilton, we park outside Shane Hobson's office. Would be handy if he'd put a 3 pin power plug outside and tell us where the nearest loo is. US broadcasters regularly use channel bonded mobile broadband for links. We just use single systems for now, but even NZ broadcasters use mobile bb. RNZ, TRN (NewstalkZB and Radiosport) and the IWI stations use it all the time. On TV they use it for News and generally cover any jitter issues with a "live via Internet" caption.