Apple iPhone to Support Sling Player 3G Streaming

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Are you seating down for this, folks? It looks like both Apple and AT&T are now ok with Sling Player’s 3G video streaming capabilities. Some considered that it will be a cold day in hell when this will happen and apparently that cold day has arrived.

For some weird reason AT&T has decide to challenge its network some more by allowing Sling Media to deliver video content over a 3G connection to iPhone owners. And it’s not a rumor either as everything has been publicly made official in a press release.

So, iPhone users, are you ready to use Sling Player? It would seem that AT&T has been testing the mobile application since December last year and recently notified both Sling Media and Apple that the new optimized iPhone app can run on its 3G network.

Ralph de la Vega, president and CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets had a rather long comment about the approval process of Sling Media:

Just as we’ve worked with Sling Media in this instance, we look forward to collaborating with other developers so that mobile customers can access a wider, more bandwidth-sensitive, and powerful range of applications in the future. Collaboration with developers like Sling Media ensures that all apps are optimized for our 3G network to conserve wireless spectrum and reduce the risk that an app will cause such extreme levels of congestion that they disrupt the experience of other wireless customers. Our focus continues to be on delivering the nation’s most advanced mobile broadband experience and giving our customers the widest possible array of mobile applications.

As you can see he stresses the importance of wireless spectrum conservation and “the experience of other wireless customers.” In other words AT&T is not yet ready to handle each and every application that can induce a severe strain on its network.

On a different note, now that Sling Player with video streaming over 3G is available to the masses, what’s next? Maybe Google Voice?