Why is it so much more expensive in South Korea?
Because the sender pays for traffic
so the ISPs are sucking the life out of the market?
Twitch can no longer afford to stay in South Korea
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Re: Twitch can no longer afford to stay in South Korea
#12Basically all about having a homegrown solutions for South Korea, so the money flows there rather than an international corporation. What will be interesting is if that homegrown solution is also used overseas, as then other countries will have to consider whether to retaliate with a similar "tax".
You can have a homegrown solution but it won't have the content.
Re: Twitch can no longer afford to stay in South Korea
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#14I don't agree with SK "Internet tax" concept but isn't it sweet that an Amazon-owned company suffers this end? Yeah, I'm looking at you, AWS egress prices and NAT-gw.
Re: Twitch can no longer afford to stay in South Korea
#15Basically all about having a homegrown solutions for South Korea, so the money flows there rather than an international corporation. What will be interesting is if that homegrown solution is also used overseas, as then other countries will have to consider whether to retaliate with a similar "tax".
Why do you think so? It sounds like this pricing structure applies to any company, local or foreign. Or an I mistaken here?
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#16Basically all about having a homegrown solutions for South Korea, so the money flows there rather than an international corporation. What will be interesting is if that homegrown solution is also used overseas, as then other countries will have to consider whether to retaliate with a similar "tax".
One of Korea's homegrown Twitch alternatives, AfreecaTV, uses AWS Cloudfront to serve video to users.
Amazon wins either way.
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#17This is every telco evil empire's ultimate dream. Charge all customers twice! Let the second charge be pure profit which you can direct to the critically important expenditure of executive bonuses!
Re: Twitch can no longer afford to stay in South Korea
#18Basically all about having a homegrown solutions for South Korea, so the money flows there rather than an international corporation. What will be interesting is if that homegrown solution is also used overseas, as then other countries will have to consider whether to retaliate with a similar "tax".
One of Korea's homegrown Twitch alternatives, AfreecaTV, uses AWS Cloudfront to serve video to users. Amazon wins either way.
That can't be cheap. How are they making that work, from a financial perspective, when Twitch couldn't?
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#19Why didn't they just lower the allowed bitrates in Korea? That seems like a more reasonable option than just totally exiting.
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I think that people that talk like this need to get a sense of perspective and perhaps reserve such vitriolic and dramatic language for actual problems instead of conversations about video resolution.
Re: Twitch can no longer afford to stay in South Korea
#20This is every telco evil empire's ultimate dream. Charge all customers twice! Let the second charge be pure profit which you can direct to the critically important expenditure of executive bonuses!
The second charge being “pure profit” is just, not how accounting works.