French telecoms pledge bandwidth ‘discipline’ in possible hit to Netflix

PARIS: French telecoms operators will exercise greater discipline allocating internet bandwidth from Monday as France braces for a surge in the number of people working from home, the industry lobby’s chief said on Sunday.

The move could affect access to video-streaming platforms such as Netflix and YouTube as well as Facebook, the world’s biggest social network.

“We’re entering an exceptional phase which brings us to take a close look at the (traffic) peaks to which we have become accustomed,” Arthur Dreyfuss, the head of France’s telecoms lobby FFT, told Reuters by telephone.