How to watch BBC from outside the UK

BBC is a public service broadcaster established by a royal charter and founded by the license fee paid by UK households. Its services include 8 national TV channels plus regional programming, 10 national radio stations, 40 local radio stations and numerous websites.

The BBC iPlayer service was launched in 2005 as an Internet television and radio service created by the BBC in order to extend its former Real-Player-based and other streamed video clip content to include all TV shows.

Its compatibility includes many platforms like:

- computers, having many features like peer-to-peer technology, online streaming technologies , iPlayer 2.0 ( a version that combines normal television iPlayer with the radio iPlayer that feaures automatic resumption of the last program watched).

- game consoles (Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)

- Android devices, Blackberry devices, tablets etc.

Unfortunately, the BBC iPlayer TV programs are accessible if you are in the UK. The restrictions in watching BBC from abroad are due to some licensing regulations. According to these regulations, the broadcaster cannot allow anyone outside the UK access to the BBC iPlayer video stream, regardless of nationality. So if you are an UK citizen living outside the UK , you cannot access BBC iPlayer.

To keep watching BBC iPlayer online, you will need to either physically be in the UK, or get an UK IP address. You can easily do this with our premium VPN service. Just connect to our UK VPN server, open the BBC iPlayer website and you are ready to watch great UK TV from anywhere in the world.

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