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Old 13th January 2020, 21:35   #2067  |  Link
IgorC
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Originally Posted by benwaggoner View Post
There are hundreds of millions of people in developing countries who often connect with 2G
Those hunders of millions of people don't use their 2G connection to watch Netflix (to begin with)! In fact most of these people care more about an access to drinking water rather than to high speed internet connection. Netflix isn't priority there.

More advanced codecs like HEVC, VP9, AV1, Opus, xHE-AAC won't bring possibility to use services like Netflix or Spotify on 2G or 3G as such limited speeds and, most importantly, traffic cap make these services hardly affordable for people with low incomes in developing countries.

Also there is no terrific difference bettween speed of developed/developing countries https://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/

It doesn't support your theory of 2G in developing countries.
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