Netflix is ​​now throttling its streaming offer in Europe

Netflix is ​​now throttling streaming in Europe. The US company officially announced this on Thursday evening. The reason is the increased amount of data due to the coronavirus. In some cases, entire networks even collapsed.

The corona virus has dominated the news for weeks. The coronavirus has also had a massive impact on the Internet. The network load has increased significantly in the past few days due to the streaming of these services. In some cases, the networks temporarily collapsed due to the overload.

In Switzerland it should, according to reports, the New Zurich newspaper the Swisscom network was repeatedly overloaded. The Federal Council even threatened to block “non-supply-related services”. But data traffic has also increased significantly in Germany due to the corona virus, so the data traffic at a hub in Frankfurt is loud DE-CIX by 10 percent. The main reason for this is probably that significantly more employees are working from home. As a result, there are significantly more conference calls, and the use of video telephony is said to have increased by 50 percent. But the use of streaming services has also increased in recent days.

EU Commission issued a recommendation for Netflix throttling

The EU Commission discussed the situation with Netflix today, ThursdayproIn the evening, Netflix announced that the bit rate of streaming content would be reduced by 30 percent for at least the next 30 days. This will mean that Netflix will use 25 percent less data. The EU Commission hopes that this will stabilize the European networks. It remains to be seen whether other streaming providers will follow suit. In any case, throttling of YouTube and Prime Video now seems anything but unlikely.