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With gaming's internet usage climbing, how do internet providers keep up?

EE's director for gaming and future propositional development Sam Kemp talks to Victoria about handling gaming led net…

There is no complex prioritisation that needs to be done based on a per customer per location part of the UK," he explains, and no rivalry between content types if a big Netflix show launches the same day as Call of Duty. "Whether you've got somebody downstairs streaming a Netflix video, somebody in another bedroom downloading a cooking recipe, and somebody in the next room trying to have a semi-competitive game of Call of Duty, the congestion comes because it's your own Wi-Fi, your own router." But Kemp notes that live-service games like Fortnite "hold a much higher monthly play rate, so the spikes will look as big as a Call of Duty, but the average time in gameplay will be far greater."

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