[LINK] The PLAN, and broadband speeds?

[steve jenkin]

Craig Sanders wrote on 22/6/07 6:10 PM:
> that's why we have volume charging in australia, and it's why telstra
> charges for upload as well as download volume. 
Craig, Agree - your arguments are lethally correct for Telstra. This is
their death knell.

IP-TV will not and cannot take off in Australia until Volume Charging is
abolished...
[ISP's on their own networks provide 'free' internal traffic.  Excludes
other players.]

Video-on-Demand will always be very expensive. It will stay a niche.

Broadcast video is possible via IP-multicast without too much additional
infrastructure - a suitable router per DSLAM, plus the head-ends.

Look at what a 1.5Mbps link can download with 80% utilisation.
There are ~2.5M seconds in a month and 1.5Mbps ~ 120kbps @ 80%.
=> 300Gb/month.

With MP4's you need ???kbps bandwidth. [I've heard 384kbps.]
But lets assume >1 channel being watched, some e-mail and web-surfing
and on-line chatting and ...

You want to tell me that people won't be receiving video feeds all the
time??
Maybe. But even at usage 100 hrs /week, it's around 180Gb.

With cheapest data ~$5/Gb - who, besides uber-geeks, is going to pay
$500+ for video?

Alternatively - to watch a 1hr show @ 0.5Mbps will be $10, just for the
volume.
That's fine for special events or expensive content, but beyond the
capacity of most people to pay.

cheers
s

> craig
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