Are bandwidth fees just as high for any domestic Korean company creates a Twitch competitor?
Or do the 3 major telecoms operate their own streaming services, so only companies under their umbrella can afford a site like Twitch?
Or do the 3 major telecoms operate their own streaming services, so only companies under their umbrella can afford a site like Twitch?
Yes, it is the same price. The biggest Korean streaming service, AfreecaTV, pays 1/3 of the total revenue.
So major real-time streaming services in Korea relies on peer-to-peer streaming to reduce the cost.
There is almost no IPv6 yet since we still have enough IPv4 addresses. I am not sure how it is implemented but p2p has been often used in Korean services since 20 years ago.
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