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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 (cepa.org)
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

They pay through their ISPs who then pay through peering agreements. Whats next, my friend's ISP charging me to deliver him an email? Let's make it like in the US where you're charged for receiving SMS.

Fuck off.