Europe’s telephone operators repeated demands that Google, Apple, and other Silicon Valley giants pay them a “fair share” to beam their data, but opposition is mounting
Europe’s telecommunications providers repeated their demands charging tech companies a “fair share” to beam their data. Opposition mounts.
Europe’s telecommunications operators have long held that some big Internet companies are driving a surge in Internet traffic and hogging their networks. A 2022 report by ETNO, Europe’s telecommunications operators lobby, claimed that more than half of the global data traffic originates from the servers of six US firms: Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Netflix.