[79155] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Thu Mar 31 11:57:34 2005
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:57:01 -0800
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>> Korea Telecom recently decided to scrap its flat rate high speed [1]
>> broadband offering and move to a traffic based charging plan - must be
>> because most korean broadband gets used for online gaming, which is as
>> high bandwidth use an app as you can get ... and they're hit by the same
>> situation, which does start to bite when a few users start maxing out
>> their pipes, and really begins to hurt when "few" suddenly becomes
>> "most"
> My guess would be that PtP is a much bigger bandwidth hog than gaming,
> especially for the people who have high upstream capacity (10meg+).
the seven biggest isps in japan recently cooperated on a really
good paper measuring a lot about broadband use in japan. it is
in the most recent ccr, v35n1 jan 05. sorry, siteseer seems not
to have it yet.
randy
