Netflix: US Cable Outperforms DSL; Charter Leads

    

Netflix published an updated report on US ISP performance. A company blog post by Ken Florance, Director of Content Delivery, concludes that "As you can see [below], the familiar pattern persists, dividing cable networks on the high end from DSL networks in the lower bitrates. We're still showing the AT&T and Verizon networks’ performance as an average across their DSL and FTTx (Fiber) offerings. That's due to a limitation in how we collect data, which we will resolve soon, so you can expect the DSL and Fiber offerings of these ISPs to be represented separately in future updates ..We're only publishing U.S. data this time. This data has become less significant for Canada in the wake of Netflix reducing default bitrates in Canada to help our Canadian members who are subject to low bandwidth caps".

This is interesting, in view on the inherent cable-OTT competition over video services - so does Net Neutrality win?

See "Netflix Performance on Top ISP Networks" - here.

France Telecom - OK, We Will Pay Them .. (Google)

   

After the French government announced that "Google and Foreign OTTs to Pay for Networks Usage" (here) it seems that France Telecom (Orange) is close to reach an agreement with Google et al., in which it will do just the opposite - charge the customers for the content they like (or "+1") so much and pay Google!

Reuters reports that "France Telecom sees opportunities for working with Google and other internet players and thinks they will be open to discussing new ways to generate and share revenue. [FT CEO] Stephane Richard (picture) told journalists [see slide below] on Wednesday that he had talked to Google about a stronger segmentation of access to telecoms networks, making users who want a better service -- a more stable or faster connection -- pay more. In that situation, the two groups could share the extra revenue generated by differentiating levels of service".

See "France Telecom eyeing partnerships with web giants" - here.

Will the French government react the same way the Dutch government did with the provocative initiative from KPN? (here).

Net Neutrality ... French pride .. I expect strike and protests in Paris.