(Comprehensive news) The Netflix Korean drama “Squid Game” is popular all over the world, and there are also many local viewers in South Korea who are very fascinated, using the Internet to watch the series online. Recently, it has been reported that a telecom company was dissatisfied with the “Squid Game” consuming too much data, and sued Netflix to court, demanding payment of the data cost.
According to reports, South Korean telecom company SK Broadband recently filed a lawsuit against Netflix, requiring Netflix to share the cost of the traffic consumed by streaming audio-visual services. SK Broadband said that since 2018, due to the boom in streaming video and audio, Netflix’s traffic has increased. Recently, because of the popularity of dramas such as “Squid Game”, Netflix’s traffic has reached 1.2 billion bits per second (Bit). Compared to 2018, Netflix’s traffic has soared 24 times. Therefore, SK Broadband believes that Netflix should share the cost of network traffic.
The report also pointed out that Netflix currently ranks second in traffic in South Korea, second only to YouTube, but neither Google nor Netflix pays any fees to telecom providers, and Facebook, Amazon, and Apple all pay related traffic fees.
And this is not because Netflix has been questioned in South Korea due to traffic problems; as early as 2020, Netflix filed a lawsuit, arguing that streaming platform operators are not obliged to pay traffic fees to telecom operators, but the court held that telecom companies were deploying networks. There are costs and expenses, so it is believed that Netflix should share part of the expenses reasonably and give back to the telecom operators. At present, Netflix has appealed this.
Netflix still believes that network transmission should be free, and he has also created 16,000 job opportunities for South Korea. At the same time, it has also invested 770 billion won (approximately SGD 884 million) in South Korea and brought 560 trillion won (approximately 6.43 billion SGD). Yuan) economic scale. Regarding SK Broadband’s complaint, Netflix said it would review the relevant content and hope to find a solution through negotiation.
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