Netflix dominates North American Internet

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Submission + - Netflix dominates North American Internet (financialpost.com)

Submitted by nairnr on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @12:25PM

nairnr writes: Accounting for 29.7% of all information downloaded during peak usage hours by North American broadband-connected households in March, Netflix Inc. received the title in the latest Global Internet Phenomena Report released by Sandvine Corp. on Tuesday.

In its ninth such report, Waterloo, Ont.-based Sandvine found the amount of data consumed by users streaming television shows and movie from Netflix’s online service exceeded even that of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing technology BitTorrent.

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