An iPlayer app for Apple's iPad that will allow web users outside the UK to use the BBC catch-up TV service will cost just over £6 per month.
According to Mark Thompson, director general of the BBC, who was speaking at the Financial Times Digital Media and Broadcasting conference in London, the app will be priced at "a small number of dollars per month, definitely fewer than 10".
This means the app will cost a total of £73.75 a year, which is less than the current colour TV licence fee of £145.50 that Brits have to fork out to watch TV in the UK.
"We're exploring internationally what the right pricing and models are ... the most important thing is the consumer pricing is right."
However, the BBC has yet to reveal the exact content that will be available through the international iPlayer app and when it will be made available.
"The global iPlayer will not be the BBC's entire UK services for a year wrapped up in an app. It will be a combination of current and past shows, editorially tailored for different international audiences," a spokesman for the BBC told The Telegraph.
"The licence fee entitles UK households to receive 10 TV channels, 15 national and 40 local radio services, BBC Online, BBC Mobile and BBC iPlayer - all free at the point of use. This access to new, live content via TV, radio and online is clearly very different from the great British programmes that will be available on the global iPlayer."
See also: BBC iPlayer offers shows from ITV and other broadcasters
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BBC Better Than Commercial TV. said: I prefer BBC tv and radio over commercial tv and radio any dayThe latter is an insult to my intelligence with 15 to 20 mins of adverts per hour in which Im shouted at and treated like Im a thick moronOften films are split over 40 minute news programmes andeven worseadverts are shown just before and after programme creditsor shown with scenes cut to show themI for one love my BBC despite its problemsWith the endless contrite rubbish on commercial broadcastersIm glad to be a real fan of the BBC
Mmmm said: Hamset - BBC breakfast - agree total crap but excellent Sky News - you must be kiddingYU - problems with funding through general taxation include accusations of government control pandering to party in power etc etc On the plus side it might bring some control over ludicrous salaries eg Ross Norton etc
%YU% said: Mmmm In Australia their main broadcaster which is the equivalent to the BBC here they dont have advertising either yet they still dont have a TV licence system because all of their services are funded through general taxation
Hamset said: The BBC does turn out some rubbish eg BBC3 and some of its news programmes are dire Breakfast in comparison to the excellent Sky News but the licence fee is regarded as good value by the vast majority of UK residents Ask yourself whether youd prefer more channels like ITV or pay a little per month to continue to get the really great stuff the BBC produces and just ignore the crud
Mmmm said: Then they might abolish the tv licence system And with it the BBC YU - How would you pay for programming or are you another everything should be free merchant
%YU% said: that Brits have to fork out to watch TV in the UKWe dont HAVE to fork out just rebel against paying and dont let the inspectors into your house if they come knocking Trouble is there are too many religiously honest people who think that the BBC is excellent value for money and licence fee evaders should be thrown amongst murderers and drug addicts If we all work together and rebel against paying the BBC will realise that it will be near impossible to arrest everyone in the country Then they might abolish the tv licence system
Tony Morris said: Look around the world the BBC is about as far from a propaganda machine as the planet has yet producedIgnore the slating it gets by the exaggerations and flagrant lies of many British newspapers or much else they say about anyoneThe impartiality of the news reporting and sheer quality of the drama childrens programmes and nature documentaries etc are first class in world-class It is incredible value for money - compare it to Sky or the dreadful standard of internet news reportingIt is shockingly naive to suggest that YouTube is an alternative Try having a propergander
Mmmm said: Its all programing for inbreeds anyway More people watch youtube than bbc 1 now aswellBBC isnt what it used to be but I think most non inbreeds still favour it over youtubeRJSebire - any chance of a toe count
RJSebire said: The BBC is an unfair tax It is a vile unisex multicultral properganda machine that will hopefully die a painfully deathThe chances of a refund arent possible but the licence fee like the BBC should go Its all programing for inbreeds anyway More people watch youtube than bbc 1 now aswell
Alan Kidd said: So this should cut my license fee then now that the BBC income is being subsidised by international incomeI though this was the BBC British Broadcasting Co not the WBC World Broadcasting CoThis being announced not long after World Services supposedly being cutHow long will it before we are being charged in the UK for iPlayer