By Nancy Tartaglione
Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV Plus Degrading Video Quality to Ease European Bandwidth Strain Amid Coronavirus Emergency
21.03.2020 - 15:29 / variety.com
Amazon and Apple are the latest companies to throttle back streaming-video bit rates in Europe, joining an effort to reduce congestion on the region’s internet networks that have become stressed during the coronavirus pandemic.
Earlier this week, Netflix and YouTube said they were putting measures in place to lower bandwidth usage of their services across the continent. That came at the request of European Union officials concerned about networks getting swamped as millions of people are staying
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20.03.2020 / 17:35
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20.03.2020 / 15:53
YouTube to Limit Streaming Traffic in Europe to Avoid Congestion Amid Coronavirus
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YouTube Joins Netflix in Move to Reduce Video Quality in Europe During Coronavirus Crisis
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