UK illegal sports streaming arrest

[Joe_90]

Surely people don't pay for streaming, the quality would be crap? What sort of upload line would he have to have to do that???

With VDSL it is possible to get 100Mb upload if you pay for it. My home broadband has 70Mb down and 20Mb up and that is a standard household sub. A business sub could be configured for higher upload. I would imagine that we will see more of these streaming services in the future. The phone companies are all moving into "triple play" or "quadruple play" - phone, internet, TV, mobile deals at this stage, supported by the roll out of fibre to the cabinet or fibre to the home (FTTC, FTTH). eircom, the Irish "national" phone line provider has rolled out FTTC and is busy flogging streaming TV services including HD to the home - all delivered over the existing twisted pair copper from the cabinets to the house.