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BRUSSELS: The European Commission on Thursday launched a consultation on the future of Europe's telecoms sector, starting a process that could lead to requiring Alphabet<\/a>'s Google, Apple<\/a>, Meta Platform and Netflix to pay some network costs.
The move by the EU executive followed more than two decades of lobbying by Deutsche Telekom<\/a>, Orange, Telefonica, Telecom Italia<\/a> and other operators who want leading technology companies to contribute to 5G<\/a> and broadband roll-out.
They said the companies including Amazon and Microsoft<\/a> account for more than half of data internet<\/a> traffic.
Big Tech<\/a> in turn calls it an internet tax that will undermine EU network neutrality rules to treat all users equally.
EU officials said the 12-week consultation will look at \"fair contribution by all digital players\". Tech and telecoms companies will be asked to respond to 60 questions.
The Commission is likely to propose legislation after the consultation, which will need to be agreed with EU countries and EU lawmakers before it can become law.
According to a document seen by Reuters last month, respondents will be asked whether CAPs (content application providers)\/LTGs (large traffic generators) should be subject to a mandatory mechanism of direct payments to finance network deployment.
The questionnaire also asked whether the EU should create a continental or digital levy or fund.
\"This consultation is a positive and urgent step towards addressing major imbalances in the internet ecosystem to the benefit of European end-users,\" telecoms lobbying group ETNO said in a statement.
Tech group Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA<\/a>) criticised the proposal.
\"Europeans already pay telecom operators for internet access, they should not have to pay telcos a second time through pricier streaming and cloud services,\" Christian Borggreen, CCIA Europe's senior vice president, said in a statement.
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欧盟的眼睛大科技,以反馈谁应该支付网络费用
此举欧盟执行后超过20年的游说,德国电信,橙色,西班牙电话公司,意大利电信和其他运营商想要领先技术公司为5 g和宽带。
布鲁塞尔:欧盟委员会(European Commission)在周四发布了一份咨询欧洲电信业的未来,开始这一过程可能导致要求字母谷歌,苹果元平台和Netflix支付一些网络成本。
欧盟的举动执行超过二十年的游说德国电信、橙、西班牙电信,意大利电信和其他运营商想要领先技术公司作出贡献5克和宽带转出。
他们说,这些公司包括亚马逊和微软占一半以上的数据互联网流量。
大型科技股又称之为互联网税,将破坏欧盟网络中立规则平等对待所有用户。
欧盟官员表示,12周的磋商将着眼于“公平贡献所有数字的球员”。科技和电信公司将被要求回答60个问题。
委员会可能会建议立法磋商后,将需要同意欧盟国家和欧盟立法者才能成为法律。
根据文档被路透上个月,受访者会问及帽(内容应用程序提供商)/ ltg(大流量生成器)应当服从强制性机制直接支付给金融网络部署。
问卷还要求欧盟是否应该创建一个大陆或数字征收或基金。
“这咨询是一个积极的和紧急的一步解决网络生态系统的主要失衡欧洲终端用户的利益,“电信游说团体ETNO在一份声明中说。
科技集团是计算机与通信行业协会(CCIA)批评建议。
“欧洲人已经为互联网接入支付电信运营商,他们不应该支付电信公司第二次通过昂贵的流媒体和云服务,“基督教Borggreen CCIA欧洲的高级副总裁,在一份声明中说。
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