[AusNOG] Netflix coming to Australia

[Mark ZZZ Smith]

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> From: Skeeve Stevens <skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com>
>To: Mark ZZZ Smith <markzzzsmith at yahoo.com.au> 
>Cc: Bruce Forster <bruce at tubes.net.au>; "ausnog at ausnog.net" <ausnog at ausnog.net> 
>Sent: Tuesday, 27 May 2014 8:45 AM
>Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Netflix coming to Australia
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>Ok... I read it... and it has some foundation... 13 years ago when it was written... it is very much out of date and non-relevant for these days.
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That's why I posted the link to current top 2000 company sales. It is still the case that the largest telco company revenues exceed the largest content company revenues significantly. According to that link, Disney's sales were $46B, where as AT&Ts were $128.8B.


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>On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Mark ZZZ Smith <markzzzsmith at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
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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.
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>>"Content is Not King"
>>http://firstmonday.org/article/view/833/742
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>>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).
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>>http://www.forbes.com/global2000/list/
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