Given his royal duties if Chris is involved it's probably better to have him a non-specific general role so should royal news take priority it isn't leaving a gap in their coverage.
Maybe given today's news your point has been proven !
In relation to the debate, presumably the parties not sending their leader will put some senior figure up in there place?
As I said I think James has a enough to keep him occupied, though I wouldn't rule out him popping up outside one of the leaders houses on election night or taking similar roles on completely.
Given that Diplomatic Correspondent inherently involves following the PM around a fair bit anyway (certainly at the moment where she's engaging in some... fairly high-profile diplomacy, to put it in appropriately neutral terms for this space!) I would not be the first bit surprised to see him doing so again on election night.
The SIM's will only be used for submitting the results, therefore those SIM's are all Pay As You Go.
Sky Mobile is only available on contract. And only uses the O2 signal. Therefore if somewhere doesn't have a good O2 signal then they're in trouble. Hence why they have both O2 and Vodafone SIM's available.
Also the network is only a month or two old. Sky would never want to face the embarrassment if it was their own network that caused their results to come in delayed.
But on their own network, presumably they could arrange for said cards to have a higher level of network access than the average member of the public, given that election counts tend to take place in busy venues.
They use the O2 network so not sure they could've. It's a white label product really, not their own infrastructure like the Cloud or Sky Fibre.
I mentioned in the Sky News thread though that this SIM stuff did nothing for the speed of their results.
Can anyone explain what ITV's secret is for getting results to air so quickly? For as long as I can remember (1997) it has been ITV declaring 10-20 minutes ahead of the BBC and Sky (in that order).
Sky it seems obvious - they don't have the resources, and I think used to mainly rely on the PA feed.
But the BBC? Surely they have more folk out there on the ground at counts than ITV and yet for the EU Referendum, and every election, it takes them longer to get to air.
They use the O2 network so not sure they could've. It's a white label product really, not their own infrastructure like the Cloud or Sky Fibre.
I mentioned in the Sky News thread though that this SIM stuff did nothing for the speed of their results.
Can anyone explain what ITV's secret is for getting results to air so quickly? For as long as I can remember (1997) it has been ITV declaring 10-20 minutes ahead of the BBC and Sky (in that order).
Sky it seems obvious - they don't have the resources, and I think used to mainly rely on the PA feed.
But the BBC? Surely they have more folk out there on the ground at counts than ITV and yet for the EU Referendum, and every election, it takes them longer to get to air.
Anyone have any sense why that is?
The BBC waits for the declaration to be made by the returning officer. ITV announce the results often before the declarations. This allows them to claim they are the fastest with the results.
ITV may have a special link up with each constituency which costs them very little and so can get the results in very quickly. They then of course have their key link ups to the main constituencies.
BBC may have excellent links to the constituencies but for the remaining ones they just feel that they are not interesting and so do not need to be reported that quickly.
Also you are dealing with two very different production teams who come at the election night coverage from different points of view.
The SIM's will only be used for submitting the results, therefore those SIM's are all Pay As You Go.
Sky Mobile is only available on contract. And only uses the O2 signal. Therefore if somewhere doesn't have a good O2 signal then they're in trouble. Hence why they have both O2 and Vodafone SIM's available.
Also the network is only a month or two old. Sky would never want to face the embarrassment if it was their own network that caused their results to come in delayed.
I think Sky have a 'tera-byte' corporate data deal with EE for 4G live reports and newsgathering use ?
02 and VF have far less 4G coverage in the sticks than EE
Also the network is only a month or two old. Sky would never want to face the embarrassment if it was their own network that caused their results to come in delayed.
I joined Sky Mobile in December 2016 prior to the January launch, so it's more than a "few months old". They use O2's network as an MVNO.
I am leaving it on Monday, as the 4G and Wi-Fi service is dreadful, even though I work in a city centre, where you'd expect it to be very good.
I'm not surprised they've purchased Vodafone SIMs, but surprised they've picked O2 for their rapid election result reports.
