It would be wonderful if in South Africa we adopted some of the exciting developments implemented by the BBC, particularly live and free broadcast of, for example, the SABC and eTV channels. You can access them over any computer or phone, and simply watch then and there and we are talking about 4 or 5 channels including news and sport. You don’t need devices, decoders etc. The benefit, particularly at sports events is quite phenomenal in that, for example, you can line the route of the London Marathon, as I did during the Olympics, and then have the runners going past you and until they come past you again you can watch the action on your iPhone.

The image is not perfect, but it is pretty decent and you would be able to hear the commentary far better if either you had your earplugs or the crowd made a little bit less noise! I think it is just another sign of the future and especially if Apple comes out with what is rumoured to be a mini iPad, it would probably make a wonderful viewing platform. That then combined with 4G, which is going to be the next mobile revolution, and which will allow clearer transmission of the images and will make it really wonderful for slow motion replays or the like when you attend a live sporting event. A copy of a screen shot that I took from my iPhone indicating the clarity and the information that one can see on the screen appears alongside this article appreciating that if you select a smaller version, the quality would appear to be better, but it is not bad when you think of how many people were lining the streets and a large number of them would have been trying to stream the same data on overcrowded networks at the same time.