Breaking Indian OTTs have suspended HD services on cellular networks

The digital services also decided to lower the bitrates to 480p, which will put less stress on telecom networks as India goes under 21-day lockdown and people are confined to their homes. This has caused an unprecedented surge in mobile internet consumption.

All video streaming services, including Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hotstar and others, have jointly decided to offer only standard definition (SD) quality content on cellular networks, suspending high definition (HD) and ultra HD effective immediately.

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Video streaming services like Netflix, Hotstar suspend HD streaming on cellular networks
 
Good move. And it's good they have limited the implementation only to cellular networks and not to wifi connections. Though for those having their mobiles connected to hotspot devices like Jiofi will still be able to stream in HD since the cellular data connection will be seen as a wifi network by the mobile or any other streaming device connected to it.
 
Is this restriction going to last more longer? Especially YouTube. Being a Google product they don't have bandwidth issues, it's all about our low bandwidth operators. But then broadband services facing same issue. Kind of stupid move.
 
Is this restriction going to last more longer? Especially YouTube. Being a Google product they don't have bandwidth issues, it's all about our low bandwidth operators. But then broadband services facing same issue. Kind of stupid move.
Exactly, forced to use alternatives. People are allowed to upload uncompressed media to social media sites and forums. But youtube is restricted. 😌
 
Is this restriction going to last more longer? Especially YouTube. Being a Google product they don't have bandwidth issues, it's all about our low bandwidth operators. But then broadband services facing same issue. Kind of stupid move.
Bro, It is really frustrating to see 480p videos on a 1080p mobile screen that too even after paying for youtube premium. :( :rolleyes:
 
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