Yebo Radio

That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard! :)

"Hundreds of millions or billions" my backside!

Does this guy realize that 90% of people only listen to radio in their car?

How on earth does he expect people to do that using a cellphone? And when exactly does battery life become a non-issue?
 
TiredOfWaiting said:
That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard! :)

"Hundreds of millions or billions" my backside!

Does this guy realize that 90% of people only listen to radio in their car?

How on earth does he expect people to do that using a cellphone? And when exactly does battery life become a non-issue?
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I think its a good idea!:)
Also you dont need the headset to listen in.
 
TiredOfWaiting said:
Are you suggesting that you should use your cap to listen to this? :confused:

Wonder how many people would actually do this...
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Lol the GPRS usage will be so little so if you have a 500kb cap then maybe you can worry.

I think quite alot, people travelling on public transport for one...
 
JK8 said:
Lol the GPRS usage will be so little so if you have a 500kb cap then maybe you can worry.

I think quite alot, people travelling on public transport for one...
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I think most people will just listen to Highveld or 5 or whatever their favourite station is using the built-in radio on their phone, or just load up some mp3s on their memory cards.

I doubt this will be a hit.
 
This is also the clown that proclaimed to like that fscking meerkat....
 
All i can say is LOL, HEHEHEHE, ROFL, 94.7 Ftw or Tuks, not Yebo radio . . .
 
i doubt it will use your cap.......i will most likely have its own APN
 
JK8 said:
Lol the GPRS usage will be so little so if you have a 500kb cap then maybe you can worry.

I think quite alot, people travelling on public transport for one...
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Even at 32kbps, which is absolute rubbish quality, it would still use 240KB per minute. 14.4MB per hour.

At R2/MB that comes to R28,80 per hour for listening to constant Vodacom ads... :D

That's why I believed they would make this a free service to Vodacom handsets... :confused:
 
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caspa said:
i doubt it will use your cap.......i will most likely have its own APN
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Exactly what I was thinking - basically like browsing within the VLive portal using the VLive APN is free - maybe Vodacom could keep things simple and just add it to the VLive portal...

If Yebo Radio is not free to listen to, then hardly anyone will listen to it.
 
do people use their cellphones as radios now in any event?
 
Has anyone considered the fact that the radio station may actually be cool to listen to? I know I'd listen if it played music I like.
 
Lydon said:
Has anyone considered the fact that the radio station may actually be cool to listen to? I know I'd listen if it played music I like.
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From a company with mo the meerkat as it's mascot? Chances are you're going to get a mobile version of 5fm...
 
I wont listen to it, but I'll tell you why its a good thing:

We need free streaming radio. If this does well, and Alan Knobb Craig makes a gatrilizion rand out of it, then other Networks will start doing it too, and then maybe..just maybe Vodacom has two streaming channels, and after a while it turns into something that looks like Shoutcast...

Yes, i know I'm hoping for a lot here. But its a cool idea, I really want to stream music on my phone, but its a tad pricey. if it is free however, has a choice of what genre to listen to and comes in varying bitrates I'd kill my (useless) battery everyday listening to it.
 
I think this is a good idea. I also think there will be a zero-rate APN. I imagine content will be more about short 5 minute audio dramas (soapies).

I see a shared revenue model on the horizon on this where you bring your audio drama to their radio platform. They make money TWICE if you consider they will be flying ads.

I think the possibilities merit this initiative.
 
qDot said:
I think this is a good idea. I also think there will be a zero-rate APN. I imagine content will be more about short 5 minute audio dramas (soapies).
I think the possibilities merit this initiative.
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Good idea yes, but I dunno if the APN will be zero rated, actually I can't think of an ideal way to do this currently. On normal GSM/3G each listener will get a stream. This could clog up the network. That's why mobile tv is so severely limited (capped) in the amount of time you can watch it. If they use DVB-H with maybe some add images, fine, but how many of us have these handsets?

One thing's for sure, I certainly won't pay for this service.
 
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