[AusNOG] Netflix coming to Australia

[Mark ZZZ Smith]

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> From: Skeeve Stevens <skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com>
>To: Bruce Forster <bruce at tubes.net.au> 
>Cc: "ausnog at ausnog.net" <ausnog at ausnog.net> 
>Sent: Monday, 26 May 2014 9:42 AM
>Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Netflix coming to Australia
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>I agree... although if you can get Foxtel via Cable, then you can get BigPond at the moment, then NBNCo later.
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>If you are getting it via Satellite then I'd also agree with you.
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>Thing is... content is king, but quality content is an even bigger king, and I think with the quality that is coming, people will choose services that enable that content.
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It might be glamorous, and the high profile workers in it might get paid very well (a.k.a. movie stars), but it isn't king. People spend more money on their inter-personal communications with their friends and their family than they do on their entertainment via content.

"Content is Not King"
http://firstmonday.org/article/view/833/742



Another sign is positions within the top largest companies lists. Disney doesn't make it into the global top 100 companies by annual sales, where as Verizon, AT&T, NTT, Deutsche Telekom and Telefonica do (click on the 'Sales' title to sort by that column).



http://www.forbes.com/global2000/list/