The Belgian provider Telenet advocates for legislation to services like Netflix and Youtube to pay for traffic over the cable network. The kabelaar want that, because the services now benefit from improvements to the network without having to pay for it.
Telenet pumps next five years a half a billion euro in the cable network to speeds of up to 1Gbit/s and director John Porter says at Channel Z that the company would like to see that internetpartijen a part of that cost have to pay themselves. “We believe that there is potential for the regulation to sharpen so that the consumers who benefit from this high-speed network a fair contribution,” said Porter.
It is not inconceivable that Netflix there willingly. The streambedrijf said earlier this year that, in certain cases, in exchange for guarantees paid agreements with providers. Or Youtube-owner Google plan to do the same, the question remains. Currently, such agreements problematic according to Belgian regulations. In addition, there are European regulations in the field of net neutrality that this type of agreement makes it difficult.
Netflix wants with the agreements with providers ensuring the quality and availability of streams for users to secure, so that customers of that provider rather choose Netflix over a competing service. There are many opponents of such agreements, who believe that providers all internet traffic equal treatment, from which service it comes.
It is unknown whether Telenet keeps to this call, or that the kabelaar actually take steps to make payment of ‘consumers’ for its network as possible.
Update 15:24: Netflix turns out not to be in favor of paid contracts with providers, as revealed in a recent statement.
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