Pricing for Data Traffic: Brussels wants to distribute the costs of data infrastructure more fairly among the actors
“Companies like Netflix, Meta and Youtube, which cause a large part of the data traffic in Europe, should contribute to the infrastructure costs of the telecom industry. We’re talking about billions that could flow into the expansion of fiber optic cables and 5G mobile networks in Europe by 2030. According to information from Handelsblatt from industry and government circles, the Commission wants to present a model next year that would regulate such payments.”
– P. Alvares de Soures in “Brussels plans data toll – Europe’s telecom companies want Netflix, Youtube and Meta to contribute to the expansion of high-speed internet. The EU Commission now supports this.”, Handelsblatt from December 6, 2022, page 1, No. 236
