But it could also do nothing for a release

"What that Google should pay us to use our network" It has millions of euros each year. "There can no more. For this French telecommunications operator as to its competitors, the site for viewing videos on the YouTube fly is a topic that angry. And the secrecy of the negotiations with the mother House of YouTube, Google, is jealously guarded. "All operators go to cardboard", is however one of them.

The iron arm has reached a certain intensity with Orange. The historical operator requires that Google contributes to investment networks, not only symbolically. But Google refuses categorically, for all other operators in the world could funnel into the breach. Result, since a few months, France Telecom increases flow of interconnection with the American company in dribs and drabs. And users, of course, complain. On the forums, they suspect their operator "Internet filter" or "curb" their connection during the day. The reality is more complex, and is not only related to Google. Thus, in late 2009, some subscribers to the "triple play" Orange complained of slow traffic on YouTube but also on other American sites (Megaupload, RapidShare, Filefront...). It was in fact linked to the current tariff negotiations with Cogent transatlantic bandwidth provider.

Remains that the operators are trapped by the success of YouTube. They show willingness not to give in to the demands of Google, but must satisfy the desire of their clients. "I had 33 increase in my interconnection with Google earlier this year, and I have already put the cover." "It is exponential," bitterly notes operator. It is with a bit of concern the arrival of high-definition and 3D videos. The HD stream broadcast by the television accessible by ADSL weigh about 18 megabytes. Well, we'll see what will happen on June 11, when customers seek massively to watch high definition football World Cup.

Management of scarcity

And the problem still Corsican with the mobile networks. They need to manage a scarce resource: frequency bands. YouTube and other consumers of bandwidth services have what to do, regrets an operator: "YouTube on the iPhone consumes 400 to 700 kilobits per second, while our television home service is optimized to 250 kilobits." In General, the Internet players do not have the culture of management of the scarcity of mobile operators. One of the main Internet sites consulted in mobility, porn Youporn specialist, is encoded to 700 kilobits in high definition. Very efficient step. This conflict calls into question the rules of operation of the Internet. For operators, there is no reason to Exchange capabilities on a basis of equal footing ("peering") with Google. The latter required that this founding net rule. It puts forward its own investment in a network consisting of a few cables and servers whose number would be around 1 million. Only one hic: flow is almost in one direction. A broadcaster, and non-operator model!

The conflict is not insoluble so far. Google has commercial relationships with the operators, for example to install by default the search engine on their mobile. It could pay for these more expensive services and avoid losing face on YouTube. But it could also do nothing for a release. End of 2009, Google has begun to deploy its network of servers in replication of content of proximity ("caches"), including France. Invests himself in the network, rather than contributing to the operators.