EU plan to make big tech pay 'fair share' of telco fees reportedly weeks away
The European Commission could issue draft legislation calling for cloud providers and hyperscalers to offset traffic generated by their services by directly funding telco infrastructure as early as March.
However, the draft won't come before the European Commission completes a public consultation and questionnaire that will query cloud and telco providers on their investment plans in the region, ReutersThese tech giants are responsible for generating a considerable amount of traffic. In May, the GMSA that cloud providers and hyperscalers like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Meta, and Netflix account for 57 percent of global traffic.support for EU regulation, US tech companies have pushed back, characterizing the efforts as an internet service tax, according to Reuters.
The question of whether companies like Amazon or Google should have to pay extra is being more heavily debated. In September, the European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association, or ENTNO for short, issued a"We believe that the largest traffic generators should make a fair contribution to the sizable costs they currently impose on European networks," the statement read.
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