The head of Roskomnadzor, Andrei Lipov, said that the service is recording a drop in YouTube traffic on fixed-line networks.
He linked this to the operation of Google caching servers installed on these networks:
Google had a lot of servers in Russia: almost every node with quite a lot of subscribers was connected to the GGC server. The company stopped supporting these servers from the moment it left Russia, and no one is investing in them. The servers are degrading, they have switched off somewhere. We see a drop in traffic towards YouTube primarily on fixed-line networks.
— Andrey Lipov
At the same time, the head of the department noted, traffic has noticeably increased for Rutube and VK Video.
When asked why the platform works as before on mobile networks, Lipov said that Google could install “more powerful servers” next to the nodes of cellular operators. (RBC)
Source: www.iphones.ru
