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by JonathanFly 931 days ago
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?
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kbumsik 931 days ago
> Are bandwidth fees just as high for any domestic Korean company creates a Twitch competitor?

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.

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neurostimulant 931 days ago
How effective peer-to-peer there? Is CGNAT widely deployed? Is IPv6 available to most people?
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kbumsik 931 days ago
They were able to reduce the network price from $70m/yr to $12m/yr [1] (their revenue was around $220m/yr btw).

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.

[1]: https://m.businesspost.co.kr/BP?command=mobile_view&num=2986...

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