A spike in internet home usage because of the COVID-19 outbreak has prompted the European Union to ask Netflix Inc. and other streaming platforms to stop showing HD content to prevent internet outages. European Commissioner Thierry Breton, who oversees the EU internal market covering more than 450 million people, late Wednesday tweeted that he spoke with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. Breton's fear is that with hundreds of millions of people either working from home, and with children out of school, the internet may break down under the strain. Read More...
A spike in internet home usage because of the COVID-19 outbreak has prompted the European Union to ask Netflix Inc. and other streaming platforms to stop showing HD content to prevent internet outages. European Commissioner Thierry Breton, who oversees the EU internal market covering more than 450 million people, late Wednesday tweeted that he spoke with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. Breton’s fear is that with hundreds of millions of people either working from home, and with children out of school, the internet may break down under the strain.
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