Bloomberg reportedthat you could take a look at a sensitive draft of the EU Commission. The topic has often been raised: According to telecommunications providers, large corporations such as Netflix, Google, Facebook and Co. should pay a data toll to the operators of the Internet structure and networks.
The ones now revealed Suggestions are part of a “fair share” vision by the EU executive, which could require big tech companies offering video streaming and other data-intensive services to pay for the traffic they generate, according to the report. The draft, part of a consultation with industry, proposes that companies pay into a fund to offset the cost of rolling out 5G mobile networks and fiber optic infrastructure.
The commission also asked companies whether there should be a threshold above which a company is considered a “large traffic generator,” the document says. This could be similar to the rules of the European Commission, which, in its recent rules on competition and online content, label some tech companies as “gatekeepers” and “very large online platforms”.
The telecom cited the results of two studies last year. The data traffic of the large digital platforms costs the European telecommunications companies a total of up to 40 billion euros a year. Not only the digital industry, but the entire European economy would benefit from fair cost sharing.
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