Big FM 106.2 UAE

Out of 328 entries in the United Arab Emirates, this one ranks 12. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

Big FM 106.2 UAE has no language recorded in the directory. We do not infer one. Guessing from the country would put every station in the United Arab Emirates on the same shelf regardless of what it broadcasts, which is exactly the kind of filled-in blank that makes a directory untrustworthy.

The stream runs at 128 kbps, level with the United Arab Emirates' median. Bitrate stops being interesting once a station is at the local norm, and the useful question moves on to whether the stream stays up, which no snapshot can answer.

The format here is AAC, against a listing for the United Arab Emirates overwhelmingly made of MP3. Both play in a browser; the difference shows up in how much quality survives at a given bitrate, where AAC has the advantage at lower rates.

Big FM 106.2 UAE streams from funasia.streamguys1.com. No other station in the United Arab Emirates is served from that address, and across the whole directory it appears three times in total.