

“We’re seeing increased use on things like Pandora and other streaming music services. “We will start throttling streaming services today,” Miller said. Pandora Music would only be for tasks deemed essential. Miller also said that other video-streaming services would have bandwidth lessened on the network, known as throttling, and music-streaming services like Sirius XM Holdings Inc.’s “As such, we’re taking actions, shutting down YouTube effective tonight.”

“Given the increased telework demand, we’ve seen a tremendous increase on the network, unprecedented demand just over the last weekend or so,” Miller said.
