The equation can be summed up in several numbers. On the one hand, more than half of global Internet traffic is generated by video content from a handful of Silicon Valley companies: Netflix, Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon. In Europe, on the other hand, €50 billion is spent every year to build and maintain the infrastructure needed to route this traffic over fiber and mobile networks, according to the Association of Major European Telecommunications Operators (Etno). A financial burden that these telecom operators are no longer willing to shoulder alone, further aggravated by the explosion of energy and materials prices. “We believe that the largest traffic generators should have a fair share of the significant costs they currently impose on European networks.“CEOs from 16 of Europe’s biggest telecoms operators, including Orange, BT, Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom, said in September.
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Source: Le Figaro
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