Gian Constantine wrote:
Well, yes. My view on this subject is U.S.-centric. In fairness to me, this is NANOG, not AFNOG or EuroNOG or SANOG.
I thought Québec and Mexico did belong to the North American Network too. ...
I agree there is a market for ethnic and niche content, but it is not the broad market many companies look for. The investment becomes much more of a gamble than marketing the latest and greatest (again debatable :-) ) to the larger market of...well...everyone.
There is only a minority in north america who happens to be white and only some of them do speak english. I remember the times when I could watch mexican tv transmitted from a studio in florida. Today everything is crypted on the sats. We have to use the internet when we want someting special here in germany. I guess Karin and me are not the only ones who do net even own a tv set. The internet is the richer choice. Even if it is mostly audio, video is nasty overseas, I am shure it does make an impact in north america. Listening to my VoIP fone is mostly impossible now at least overseas. I used to be able to fone overseas. but even the landline has deteriorated because the fonecompanies have switched to VoIP themselves. Cheers Peter and Karin -- Peter and Karin Dambier Cesidian Root - Radice Cesidiana Rimbacher-Strasse 16 D-69509 Moerlenbach-Bonsweiher +49(6209)795-816 (Telekom) +49(6252)750-308 (VoIP: sipgate.de) mail: peter@peter-dambier.de mail: peter@echnaton.serveftp.com http://iason.site.voila.fr/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/iason/ http://www.cesidianroot.com/