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Korea has afaik much higher cost to deliver data for international services because they charge the sender of the data per unit, and Twitch couldn’t operate pro
by eutropia 3y ago
Korea has afaik much higher cost to deliver data for international services because they charge the sender of the data per unit, and Twitch couldn’t operate profitably despite the obvious market fit.
Surprising that they’re fining them on top of it though!
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- echelon 3y ago> they charge the sender of the data per unit This is why Twitch is leaving. This is absolutely insane.
- teaearlgraycold 3y agoSorry for asking what I could Google for myself - do they not charge ISP customers for data received? Are they double, or even triple-dipping?
- kijin 3y agoOf course they're double dipping. Korean ISPs can't charge the customers more, because many of the customers (both landline and mobile) have been promised "unlimited" data. There'd be a colossal shitstorm if they ever tried to take that back. So they look for easier prey: foreign video streaming platforms.
- deprecative 3y agoYet in the US they took it away and we thanked them for the honor. It seems to be coming back but not quite these days.