Streaming music on EDGE in the UK

[a27]

I read this http://cameron.io/article/iphone-radio-applications and decided that I'd try Pandora.
However, it does not work in the UK.
I've been using last.fm since then but it's practically impractical to do that on EDGE due to constant buffering. It is very good on WiFi though.

I'm yet to try AOL Radio but wondered if anyone else has found other good apps that do the same job.

 

[The Phazer]

Buffering issues are probably down to the nature of the Edge connection. It doesn't really have that good a quality of service to reliably serve audio.

Given O2's contract explicitly states you can't use streaming services on the iPhone anyway I don't see much prospect of that changing...

Phazer

 

[a27]

Given O2's contract explicitly states you can't use streaming services on the iPhone anyway I don't see much prospect of that changing...

Phazer

Does it?

 

[The Phazer]

Does it?

Yup -

UNLIMITED DATA / WIFI EXCESSIVE USAGE POLICY
Your O2 tariff for iPhone allows you unlimited use of Telefónica O2 UK Limited's Edge / GPRS networks and The Cloud's UK Wireless LAN network, for personal internet use, email and Visual Voicemail (VVM) on your iPhone only. All usage must be for your private, personal and non-commercial purposes.
You may not use your SIM Card in any other device, or use your SIM Card or iPhone to allow the continuous streaming of any audio / video content, enable Voice over Internet (Voip), P2P or file sharing or use them in such a way that adversely impacts the service to other customers of O2 or The Cloud. If O2 reasonably suspect you are not acting in accordance with this policy O2 reserves the right to impose further charges, impose network protection controls which may reduce your speed of transmission or disconnect your tariff at any time, having attempted to contact you first.

http://www.o2.co.uk/termsconditions/iphone

Phazer

 

[Marky_Mark]

So how does this sit comfortably with YouTube, a preloaded application on the iPhone - surely that would be classed as streaming media. This is the problem with these bloody contracts - they're so vague it's difficult to see where the boundaries are.

Of course, the other thing is:

...allows you unlimited use...

is absolute bollx, because they then spend the next six lines telling you that 'unlimited' actually limits you to this, that and the other.