[LINK] NBN 100mbps plan a "tough sell" and may not be offered in future?

[JanW]

At 11:50 AM 15/01/2018, Dr Bob Jansen (in Korea) wrote:
>I wonder if Australia is taking the wrong focus? After all, do most people care about speed or services? I would suspect services. 

I may be wrong, but I think this is a holdover from the international data charge days across the Pacific. So the model just never caught up. 

Does Korea have a net neutrality regulation? That also may be what's different. The US may soon be changing too, given the recent actions on net neutrality so that service differentiation will be possible.

Quality of service should be a measure, but that's hard, given the variability of connections. But it would address the issues around buffering, at least a bit. I found my SBS OnDemand buffering yesterday afternoon. I didn't try Netflix. It may have buffered, too. Not sure if it was because of network congestion or the SBS server. I also had a non-connect alert for an email grab from Internode about the same time, so I suspect the network was the issue.

Jan


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