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Telcos detail plan to charge Big Tech firms for access to Internet users
- hiatus 3y agoIs there no concept of a dumb pipe in EU? Would be interesting to see big tech block specific ISPs that force them to pay to play.
- sharemywin 3y agoDoesn't the market have to stabilize into a state where some pretty large portion of consumers can't afford the service to maximize profits.
- Bran_son 3y agoI thought the users already paid to get that traffic delivered to them. And the tech firms also have to pay for their bandwidth. But I guess 'fair' has nothing to do with it.
- bediger4000 3y agoI already pay for my internet although I'm not happy that CenturyLink appears to be unable to give me an IPv6 address, or rent me a static IP address of any sort. If CenturyLink gets paid on the server end, why am I paying? They're not keeping a lake of IP packets which I empty and Google, Apple, Netflix etc fill up. Greedy behavior!
- olliej 3y agoSo users pay for bandwidth, and then ... companies also pay for bandwidth? How is that not double dipping? More over why aren't they therefore being required to demonstrate that the amount users are paying is less than the costs? Surely it should be easy enough for a telco to demonstrate that they're running at a loss?