In addition to the announcement of the Freebox Mini 4K, which replaces the crystal on the entry level, it is the arrival of Android TV player in the operator that surprised observers.
Free position effect was known vis-à-vis the US giant. “Android on
box is to leave the keys at Google. Tomorrow when the park will box
Android, Google will decide what will be VOD, programs, etc. “, launched Maxime Lombardini, CEO of Free last October.
This distrust was particularly fueled by the many disputes between the two groups , particularly around online advertising but especially about the interconnection. The bad YouTube service quality during peak hours would it be a choice of Free to force Google to pay for the bandwidth? These delays end of 2012 had created a controversy involving
consumer association, government and authority
regulation.
In case the compensation of excess traffic generated: “We decided to
do not let them. (…) In the meantime, there is access to flange
person but climbing is stopped: it was a pipe of some
size for Google traffic and we do not add, “said Xavier Niel
April 2013.
It can lock had pushed the UFC-Que Choisir to grasp ARCEP and DGCCRF
on the issue. The regulator had also himself open investigation
administrative trying to determine where
had the problem. Finally, if Free does not knowingly flange flow, these delays are certainly
the result of the intrinsic design of network and / or
too low capacity of interconnections.
No matter however for Free investing. If Google was up here a deaf ear, things have changed. “I think it works well, no? I read in the forums, people
said the quality was perfect, with 4K stream, so we will
assume that it’s going well, “said Xavier Niel, who answered the questions of 01Net. Google he agreed to pay a higher bandwidth?,
neither party wants to confirm the …
But it seems to have been a win-win deal: Google seems to have put water in his wine (or hands in the pocket) to YouTube is better broadcast party against the choice of opting for Free Android TV. The game is worth the candle for Google continues its breakthrough in France after the Miami BouyguesTel. A nice feat when you know the overwhelming dominance of the box TV operators in France.
On the choice of Google, Xavier Niel has not come about
interconnection in his presentation: “We decided deliberately, willfully, in
Google to go in the house. It was the choice of the system
most used in the world of Google Play Store, apps
and the entire Android ecosystem. “
And to distance
with spikes of its CEO. “I have never said that, and
and working on it with Google since
twelve months. If tomorrow the French want to use them
TV with Android TV box, they will buy an Android box
TV “…
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