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Netflix block cost almost $40 million in potential revenue, Indonesia's Telkomsel tells antitrust hearing

By Jet Damazo-Santos ( January 8, 2021, 08:34 GMT | Insight) -- Indonesia’s largest telecommunications service provider, Telkomsel, claims its decision to block access to Netflix cost it almost $40 million in potential revenue. Telkomsel and its parent, Telkom, maintain that the four-year block on the streaming giant was solely due to concerns over content censorship and takedown issues, and not because of any alleged discrimination to favor other video-on-demand service providers. Indonesia’s largest telecommunications service provider, Telkomsel, has claimed that its decision to block access to Netflix cost it around 545 billion rupiah (almost $40 million) in potential revenue, to defend itself against accusations that it engaged in discriminatory practices. ...

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