GUEST,jim bainbridge wrote: I fail to believe that the BBC has its listeners' opinions at its heart...

Which listeners? The ones who pay the license fee or the ones that don't?

And if it's not going to happen...

It (limiting BBC Sounds to the UK) is going to happen. But, according to the second linked article, "... you will be able to listen to BBC Radio 2, or to 6 Music, or to BBC Radio Leeds, outside of the UK." (I'm not sure if that includes on-demand/catch-up listening though.)