What are the main costs in providing the text service? Surely it’s mainly on the transmission side? How many people are working solely on the text service? Were those working on it about to be made redundant and suddenly are not?
No one works on it ..... the cost is to replace unmaintanable hardware and software ... whuch is roughly 20 years old
And to keep it up to date ... a lot if current quality issues are because it has nit been updated to match the website where us scraped it’s data .
When did "Red Button text is closing on 30th January" turn into "Red Button text was due to be have started being phased out [on 30th Jan]" ?
Slight change of wording there reveals there had already been some backsliding, meaning something of the Red Button text service would have lived on beyond tomorrow anyway...
The right call. I understand the technical reasons for closing the MHEG based service and though personally I'm fine with that (but they should keep the connected service) there is still the accessibility issue, though considering the BBC were forced to run part of the nationwide broadband roll out a shame it was only for the benefit of international corporations rather than making broadband available cheaply to those who either can't afford it or have no desire for it for the traditional internet, but would benefit from OTT services.