I was getting blasted earlier for suggesting streaming services and gaming DLCs could likely be slowed by government intervention. EU is currently working with Netflix to do just that. It's currently a strong suggestion and even a plead but I maintain that we're going to see this pushed harder in the coming weeks.

In a statement on Thursday, Breton said that given the unprecedented situation, streaming platforms, telecom operators and users "all have a joint responsibility to take steps to ensure the smooth functioning of the internet during the battle against the virus propagation."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/19/tech/netflix-internet-overload-eu/index.html

- Mike Bolitho

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 5:03 AM Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu> wrote:

On 19/Mar/20 04:35, Scott Weeks wrote:
>
>
> We do about 70-80Gbps at peak over the external
> BGP links we have and I am not seeing a large
> increase nor am I seeing it spread out over time.
> We're an eyeball network plus some really large
> customers.
>
> Anyone else seeing something different? We're
> now into the 3rd day, so I thought I'd see
> something change by now.

South Africa and a few other African countries put countries on
semi-lockdown from about Sunday.

We've seen a 15% increase in peak traffic on our network since the 17th.

Mark.