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Twitch, the popular video streaming service, plans to shut down its business in South Korea on February 27 after finding that operating in one of the Twitch plans to shut down its business in South Korea after network costs became "prohibitively expensive" in the leading esports market.

Twitch to shut down in Korea over ‘prohibitively expensive’ network fees::Twitch, the popular video streaming service, plans to shut down its business in South Korea on February 27 after finding that operating in one of the Twitch plans to shut down its business in South Korea after network costs became “prohibitively expensive” in the leading esports market.

  • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Interesting. By comparison, I know the US Postal service picks up a lot of slack for Amazon (subsidizing their most expensive postal arrangements) and in the United States there’s basically only two ISPs in most areas… I’m surprised that Amazon is somehow the moral one in this situation

    • TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Only one high speed isp in my area. Shoot, I’ve lived in various places up and down the mid Atlantic and after dial up fizzled Comcast was always the only decent game around. I could do LTE now, but its still not as good as Comcast. 250mbps down, 10 up for $90/mo

      • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Yeah, there’s basically two ISPs but they retain regional monopolies, making it practically one ISP for you and plenty of others…

        South Korea is sounding really nice right about now, lol