South Korea’s top Internet provider, KT Corp plans to charge data-heavy content providers such as Google’s Youtube and Internet-enabled TV service operators to subsidize costly network upgrades, a KT executive said on Thursday. […]
“We want to set a rule that we can equally apply to every platform operator that offers data-heavy content as those services threaten to black out our network. They should pay for using our network,” Kim Taehwan, vice president of KT’s smart network policy task force, told Reuters in an interview. […]
Such moves could have wider implications for the likes of Apple and Google, which are trying to replicate their enormous success in the smartphone market in the living room by offering services such as high-quality videos, movies, games and social networking via TVs. […]
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