US technology giants occupy 55%of network traffic, three European countries: should be divided into infrastructure costs

According to Reuters reported on August 2, a document shows that France, Italy and Spain are increasing pressure on the European Commission to ask the other party to propose a legislative plan to ensure that large US technology companies are sharing the sharing part of the construction of telecommunications infrastructure in the European Union. cost.

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It is reported that this is the first time that the governments of these three countries have expressed their common position on the issue.

EU regulatory agencies said in May that they are studying whether American technology giants should bear the cost of upgrading some European telecommunications networks.

It is reported that the copy of the document shows that the three countries have pointed out that the six major Internet content providers (META, Alphabet, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix, are all US companies) occupying 55%of the Internet data traffic of the European Union. The document wrote: "This has brought a specific cost of bandwidth for European telecom operators, and at this time, these operators have made huge investment in the highest cost 5G and fiber -to -house networks."

This document quoted by Reuters also advocates that European telecommunications operators and network content providers shall share the cost of network construction fairly. The document wrote, "We call on the legislative proposal ... to ensure that all market participants can share the cost of digital infrastructure."

It is reported that two Italian government officials confirmed the details of the document.

According to a study released by the Telecom Industry Lobbying Organization of the European Telecom Network Operator Association (ETNO) earlier this year, if technology giants provide 20 billion euros for European network construction each year, they can bring a boost effect of 72 billion euros to the EU economy. Essence

However, people with digital rights activities issued a warning to allow large technology companies to pay for online construction, which may threaten the EU network neutral rules. They are worried that after the EU and American technology giants have reached an agreement to fund the infrastructure of telecommunications, these rules may be subject to weaken.

The report mentioned that the above -mentioned joint documents of the Three Kingdoms pointed out that any legislative proposal should "ensure fairness between users and meet the rules of network neutrality. This is the core principle we must maintain."

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