12 kilobits is fine for voice. Not great but also fine too when bandwidth gets really throttled at congested times.
Its for all day background streaming.
Its sort of ironic as the BBC may be crapping on users to save costs themselves, yet stream choices surely would save them costs ?
Lets hope its not like government where 99% bad dumb IT projects allow corporates to ransack the public purse of billions.
Well if you got a basic machine like a Raspberry Pi and left it on at home with the higher 48Kb/s stream connected, you could output the audio going through the sound card to a stream using software like WinAmp or an alternative, to a URL on your IP, so that you can put in the 12K stream URL into TuneIn eg: http://xx.xx.xxx.xx/stream whatever. You would have to leave a little streaming server live though and port forward to the Pi / machine and port the stream is running on so that you can connect to it externally from your mobile.
That is the only way I can think of you getting a 12K stream up and running. You could always try a different mobile provider with a bigger allowance and / or coverage as a 48K should be fairly reliable and even using all the working day every day 5-10GB of data should be enough, which shouldn't cost too much.
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Well if you got a basic machine like a Raspberry Pi and left it on at home with the higher 48Kb/s stream connected, you could output the audio going through the sound card to a stream using software like WinAmp or an alternative, to a URL on your IP, so that you can put in the 12K stream URL into TuneIn eg: http://xx.xx.xxx.xx/stream whatever. You would have to leave a little streaming server live though and port forward to the Pi / machine and port the stream is running on so that you can connect to it externally from your mobile.
That is the only way I can think of you getting a 12K stream up and running. You could always try a different mobile provider with a bigger allowance and / or coverage as a 48K should be fairly reliable and even using all the working day every day 5-10GB of data should be enough, which shouldn't cost too much.