Fair Share or Extortion? Europe’s Telecommunications Debate
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Europe’s telecommunications providers repeated their demands charging tech companies a “fair share” to beam their data. Opposition mounts.

Europe’s telecommunications operators have long held that some big Internet companies are driving a surge in Internet traffic and hogging their networks. A 2022 report by ETNO, Europe’s telecommunications operators lobby, claimed that more than half of the global data traffic originates from the servers of six US firms: Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Netflix.