Belgium's biggest ISP wants netflix to pay.

[witting]

Telenet the flemish isp who recently announced their gigabit FTTN network, said that they would like to have a say in the europian/belgian net neutrality law allowing ISP to charge sites like netlfix and youtube for the heavy network traffic they cause.

Fun fact: netflix can't even be viewed in belgiun as of today. They are coming this fall.

Source: http://m.standaard.b...140901_01244289

http://m.standaard.b...140901_01244614

[witting]

Double post

[Sauron]

And this right here is why netflix should have never accepted to pay american carriers. If they paid one, everyone else is going to want a slice of the pie.

[helping]

it's starting

 

I think Tek Syndicate said this would happen

[witting]

it's starting

I think Tek Syndicate said this would happen

They did, luckily politicians have already said they can't do that bevause of that net neutrality law.

[Valentyn]

The EU is going to trample that ISP. They've already start rolling out laws protecting net neutrality.

[dlf]

The EU is going to trample that ISP. They've already start rolling out laws protecting net neutrality.

Think we in North America need something like that . . . . . .

[Valentyn]

Think we in North America need something like that . . . . . .

You'll need to get money out of politics as much as possible first. 

Can't believe the head of the FCC use to be a lobbyist for the ISP/Telecoms 

[brownninja97]

NO belgium NO, thats its belgium, get out of the EU, i hope you die in a fire. Ive always hated you belgium, may the fires of hell rain down upon that country, only.

 

I think i might have gone too far.

[samcool55]

NO belgium NO, thats its belgium, get out of the EU, i hope you die in a fire. Ive always hated you belgium, may the fires of hell rain down upon that country, only.

 

I think i might have gone too far.

I live in belgium and you have imho...

it's just the ISP that has a bad infrastructure. I am connected at another ISP and they don't care.

[Kingofpants]

The reason they want to do this is probably cause they oversold their bandwidth on the fiber lines and Screwed up and rather than buy more fiber badwitdth they want any bandwidth heavy tasks be Throttled. GG Belgium ISP.

[bob345]

and now everyone is just jumping on the bandwagon. Netflix should never have done what they did

[NeatSquidYT]

Nigel Farrage will love this.

"Vote UKIP for Netflix!"

[witting]

I live in belgium and you have imho...

it's just the ISP that has a bad infrastructure. I am connected at another ISP and they don't care.

 

Telenet has much better infrastructure than belgacom (I think that's what you're using), someone on teksyndicate pointed out that it's most likely liberty global a US company who has 53% of the shares in telenet.

[witting]

NO belgium NO, thats its belgium, get out of the EU, i hope you die in a fire. Ive always hated you belgium, may the fires of hell rain down upon that country, only.

 

I think i might have gone too far.

 

Atleast we adopted the euro /rage

[Builder]

You'll need to get money out of politics as much as possible first. 

Can't believe the head of the FCC use to be a lobbyist for the ISP/Telecoms 

NO GETTING THE MONEY OUT OF POLITICS IS SOCIALIST AND SOCIALISM IS COMMUNISM AND COMMUNISM IS STALIN AND STALIN IS BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD.

 

/s

 

Honestly Netflix did what they had to. They would have lost more money by NOT paying for their bandwidth.

[Victorious Secret]

The EU will crap down this ISPs throat and stop this, because it seems like every other country except the US has their head on straight about dealing with net neutrality. 

[SixtyDashOne]

And this right here is why netflix should have never accepted to pay american carriers. If they paid one, everyone else is going to want a slice of the pie.

 

Yeah. Netflix set a very, VERY bad precedent with that move.

 

Hoping Victorious Secret is right. The US doesn't have the balls to stand up to ISPs or other big corporations/industries, whereas the EU is known for cracking the whip, so hopefully this gets squashed before it goes anywhere.

[EChondo]

I'm really pissed that Netflix has even agreed to pay U.S. ISP's. Should have said F off and if Netflix's speeds were decreased because of it, then put a message while it's buffering saying your ISP is corrupted and purposely making your connection slow.

[dlf]

I'm really pissed that Netflix has even agreed to pay U.S. ISP's. Should have said F off and if Netflix's speeds were decreased because of it, then put a message while it's buffering saying your ISP is corrupted and purposely making your connection slow.

I'd presume if they had put a message up that they'd get sued by the ISP's.

[elkenrod]

it's starting

 

I think Tek Syndicate said this would happen

 

This is also why everyone on here should be using a VPN.  Take precautions people... the internet wars have started.

[EChondo]

I'd presume if they had put a message up that they'd get sued by the ISP's.

Then they'd go to court for telling the truth? If they get sued for "bad mouthing"(cause that's really all it is), then why are there commercials on TV saying that X brand is worse than our Y brand?

 

Companies are just getting butt hurt and Netflix needs to put its foot down. If it comes to the point where Comcast/TimeWarner doesn't want to allow Netflix on their connections, then so be it. When consumers are complaining about not having Netflix then they'll complain to their ISP's, not Netflix.

[LlamaDom]

As far as I am aware, Holland and Belgium have very strict net neutrality laws.

[MonkeyFace]

 

Damn dingo is spreading his rabies. 

[Ashaira]

The EU is going to trample that ISP. They've already start rolling out laws protecting net neutrality.

 

Yeah. I think it might be the taxes. Most if not all EU countries have pretty heavy taxes compared to USA and i think the goverments realise that if they want to keep said taxes they better dam well please us with good services.