[LINK] NBN to cost 24 times South Korea's faster network, says research body

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Paul Brooks wrote:
> Thanks for the lead-in Richard...
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>> I don't see this happening (say) in the NBN for IPTV content.
> Nor do I, because:
>     1) the cyclone picture was being sent upstream, IPTV will be transmitted
> downstream - most plans will have much higher capacity downstream compared to up
>     2) IPTV content will be captured with much higher quality cameras, and much higher
> capacity MPEG-4/H.264 dedicated compression encoders, so better quality pictures
>     3) IPTV over the NBN will be carried over QoS-enabled prioritising networks, not
> the dismal excuses of best-efforts no QoS consumer broadband we have today
> 

Do you see the QoS prioritised channels being available 
across the Internet or just between specific locations ie as 
a consumer will I be able to view any IPTV channel around 
the world?

It seems to me that the trade off we have with our dismal 
excuses of best-efforts no QoS consumer broadband is price 
and ubiquity. I do wonder whether the lack of support for 
transient customers will become a problem.

Marghanita
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