There is an international iplayer ap that you can pay for, but it has different content apparently - I have been told by somebody who has it that it only offers old sitcoms and current Eastenders...
I've lifted this from another forum I post on:
If you install Hola Unblocker it will unblock many sites as it forms a group IP address. No idea how, but it does. Once you have that installed, it will show a little orange devil icon on the toolbar whenever it is active. It usually lights up automatically, but sometimes you need to click and pray. Then, and this isn't difficult if I did it, google Hola Unblocker scripts. A college student somewhere with smelly socks and an IQ north of 200 has written a patch. Download it and you will have iPlayer UK, all BBC and ITV.
You can also use filmon to stream live TV - all the channels you'd get on a UK freeview box. You need a VPN or XBMC and F.T.V
There is also a paidfor service called UKTV everywhere which will host a box for you - apparently with that you get a high quality signal, and all the same functionality as we used to have before they migrated to the new satelite.
Ex-pats who watch BBC programming would happily pay the licence fee, but are not given the opportunity. THe reason is that the BBc doesn't want the "scraps" of a few hundred thousand ex-pat licence fees, they want to sell the rights to their programmes to overseas channels, and if the programmes are available free that is (slightly) less likely to happen (although as most countries want to dub them to show on their own channels that is a rather debatable point - the audience for dubbed version of a programme is unlikely to the the same, so I doubt one thing really does impact on the other... but that is the reason - licencing in the channel to channel sense not the individual TV licences - money, and lots of it).