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For what it's worth, Cloudfalre also pointed out the weird trend in Korean ISPs: > South Korea is perhaps the only country in the world where bandwidth costs a

For what it's worth, Cloudfalre also pointed out the weird trend in Korean ISPs: > South Korea is perhaps the only country in the world where bandwidth costs are going up. This may be driven by new regulations from the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, which mandate the commercial terms of domestic interconnection, based on predetermined “Tiers” of participating networks. This is contrary to the model in most parts of the world, where networks self-regulate, and often peer without settlement. The government even prescribes the rate at which prices should decrease per year (-7.5%), which is significantly slower than the annual drop in unit bandwidth costs elsewhere in the world. We are only able to peer 2% of our traffic in South Korea. [1] > Today, however, there are six expensive networks (HiNet, Korea Telecom, Optus, Telecom Argentina, Telefonica, Telstra) that are more than an order of magnitude more expensive than other bandwidth providers around the globe and refuse to discuss local peering relationships. [1] This post is from 2016 and now the Korean Goverenment passes the law that makes the fee even higher. The Korean Government keeps favoring their ISP over other internet companies. [1]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-costs-around-the-world/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-costs-around-the-world...

otoburb 6y ago
>>This post is from 2016 and now the Korean Goverenment passes the law that makes the fee even higher. The Korean Government keeps favoring their ISP over other internet companies. The Korean Government also sees an opportunity to bring in additional revenue, while at the same time applying a more equal treatment to foreign and domestic content providers alike. Domestic content providers are paying network usage fees, and depending on the final thresholds (currently 1% of domestic network traffic and 1M daily users over a 3 month period[1]) content providers may also have to pay an additional surcharge. Naver, Kakao and other dominant Korean content providers aren't happy about this.[2] It's a high stakes game for sure. I wonder how far South Korea will go to enforce this legislation; perhaps something similar to the Great Firewall of China. Theoretically, as/if popular foreign content providers are cut off (FB, Netflix, etc.) in the new year then domestic providers should grumble less as their market share and usage presumably increases. [1] http://www.theinvestor.co.kr/view.php?ud=20200908000889 http://www.theinvestor.co.kr/view.php?ud=20200908000889 [2] https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2020/09/10/business/industry/Netflix-Naver-Kakao/20200910194700425.html https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2020/09/10/business/ind...

otoburb 6y ago

>>This post is from 2016 and now the Korean Goverenment passes the law that makes the fee even higher. The Korean Government keeps favoring their ISP over other internet companies. The Korean Government also sees an opportunity to bring in additional revenue, while at the same time applying a more equal treatment to foreign and domestic content providers alike. Domestic content providers are paying network usage fees, and depending on the final thresholds (currently 1% of domestic network traffic and 1M daily users over a 3 month period[1]) content providers may also have to pay an additional surcharge. Naver, Kakao and other dominant Korean content providers aren't happy about this.[2] It's a high stakes game for sure. I wonder how far South Korea will go to enforce this legislation; perhaps something similar to the Great Firewall of China. Theoretically, as/if popular foreign content providers are cut off (FB, Netflix, etc.) in the new year then domestic providers should grumble less as their market share and usage presumably increases. [1] http://www.theinvestor.co.kr/view.php?ud=20200908000889 http://www.theinvestor.co.kr/view.php?ud=20200908000889 [2] https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2020/09/10/business/industry/Netflix-Naver-Kakao/20200910194700425.html https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2020/09/10/business/ind...