South Korea moves to regulate CDN operators after outages
South Korean Representative Inchul Jo has proposed a bill to bring global Content Delivery Network (CDN) and cloud operators under the country's service stability obligations. The legislative effort, which would amend the Telecommunications Business Act, is a response to recent service disruptions in Korea caused by outages from these providers.
Key Takeaways
- Rep. Inchul Jo proposed amending the Telecommunications Business Act.
- The bill would add global CDN operators and cloud operators to Korea's service stability obligations.
- The proposal responds to outages that have disrupted daily life and industrial services in Korea.
- The article frames the issue as a response to service disruptions from global CDN and cloud outages.
Why It Matters
If passed, the bill would extend Korea’s service-stability rules beyond traditional telecom operators to include CDN and cloud providers tied to streaming delivery and other digital services. That raises the compliance bar for infrastructure providers serving Korean users and gives regulators a new hook after outages that affected both daily life and industrial services. For streaming teams, the practical issue is delivery resilience: CDN reliability is moving from an ops concern to a policy one. Watch the details of the Telecommunications Business Act amendment, especially which providers are explicitly brought into scope.
Read full article at asiae.co.kr
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