No RDS-TMC for Australian earlier build BMW's

[Mack7]

The RDS-TMC traffic service has been in opertation here in Australia for about a year now (www.sunatraffic.com.au) however BMW have stated the following:-

We have recently received advice from BMW AG and Suna that the traffic service will not be available for earlier build vehicles, there is an issue with the software levels within the navigation computer and at this stage the software will not be developed for these vehicles.

When the data is available it will then only be offered for BMW vehicles built form the start of the 4th quarter 2008, when fitted with the soon to be released “CIC” information display / navigation system.

We apologies if this causes you any inconvenience.

This is what we could have had:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1liriVZlMs

Surley there must be a demand for this with all the mk4 navigation systems out there.

My questions are:-

Can the software be developed for Mk4 Navigation by somebody else or is it possible to add the TMC location tables to an existing navigation disc?

Maybe we could start a petition, what do you think guys?