NetFlix: Lower resolution will help us have a better Internet

It does not take much mind to suspect that mandatory stay at home due to the coronavirus epidemic and restraint measures would increase internet traffic.

Τthe Greek ministry Digital Governance has issued guidelines and recommendations but you can not impose them with a bat, as there may be objective difficulties.

In other words, the other person tells you that he has two children at home who can start chewing on the walls from inaction, so give them some Netflix, some YouTube…

Yes, but that burdens the networks. We do not have data for Greece but Vodafone  announced an increase of up to 50% in traffic in some of the countries it has a presence in, while Spain a few days ago recorded an increase in internet traffic by 40%. So obviously there is an issue and the more new applications and services are added for remote work or training, the more the burden will increase.

Thierry Breton, the Internal Market Commissioner who spoke with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, must have had that in mind. Breton also wrote a related tweet  where he reveals the Commission's thoughts and, more or less, what he discussed with Hastings.

That is, high definition may be available at certain times of the day, while Netflix (and possibly other platforms) will drop to Standard Definition in the morning, noon, and possibly afternoon. You will now say that you have Payments for High Definition and you will be right, but logic says that if everyone uses the. Wasteful versions of the services in the end we will not have bandwidth to send a line of text.

Yes but can this be done automatically? Technically it is done, the issue is that a legal regulation is probably needed and if we understand well what we read in Politico, there is a relevant process in progress at BEREC which is the "umbrella" organization for the telecommunications committees of the EU member states.

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