Basically, if a Korean subscriber to a broadband network requests data from your app and you send it, you have to pay that person's ISP.
It's a terrible economic model that punishes peering. Cloudflare and Facebook moved most of their servers overseas to Japan. It's been a long running sh*t show, with lots of lawsuits between Netflix and S. Korea's biggest telecom.
And unfortunately EU Commissioner Thierry Breton wants to bring this model to the EU.
It's a terrible economic model that punishes peering. Cloudflare and Facebook moved most of their servers overseas to Japan. It's been a long running sh*t show, with lots of lawsuits between Netflix and S. Korea's biggest telecom.
And unfortunately EU Commissioner Thierry Breton wants to bring this model to the EU.