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The European Union government is seeking public input on a controversial proposal to make online platforms pay for telecom companies’ broadband network upgrades and expansions. If it goes forward, tech companies like Google and Netflix and possibly many others could have to make payments toward the financing of broadband network deployment.
The European Commission’s exploratory consultation released today said there “seems to be a paradox between increasing volumes of data on the infrastructures and alleged decreasing returns and appetite to invest in network infrastructure.” Large telecom companies have been seeking payments from web companies, the
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