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BRUSSELS: EU regulators' plan to make Alphabet's Google, Meta and Netflix bear some of the costs of the bloc's telecoms network would distort the telecoms market and harm competition, a group of small telecoms operators said on Tuesday.
The warning from MVNO Europe, whose members include Comcast<\/a>'s pay TV company Sky which has its own mobile service, German mobile operator Freenet<\/a> and Poste Italiane unit PosteMobile<\/a>, underlined the stakes involved.
Big players such as Deutsche Telekom, Orange and Telefonica<\/a> have long complained about tech rivals free-riding on their networks.
Their lobbying paid off when the European Commission earlier this year said it would propose legislation by year-end that would force tech rivals to partly fund network costs.
Such moves could cause more harm than good, MVNO Europe said on its website.
\"We fear that the suggested network investment contributions would seriously harm competition on telecom markets, harm MVNOs directly, and ultimately be detrimental to both consumers and business users,\" it said.
MVNOs (mobile virtual network operators) do not own network infrastructure but piggyback on bigger rivals to provide their services to their customers.
\"Materialization of the suggestions in legislation could lead to disruption of current peering and transit markets which are currently functioning competitively on the basis of well-established commercial practices,\" the group said.
\"This proposal could bring to the unwished result that largest telecom providers will have their network services paid not only twice (by customers and by content and application providers), but even three times (that is also by alternative operators, which however are already paying network access fees),\" it said.
Digital rights activists have also warned of the risk to Europe's net neutrality rules that support an open internet.
France, Italy and Spain in a joint proposal earlier this month backed the idea.
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较小的欧盟电信公司说网络费用针对大型科技会损害竞争
MVNO的警告欧洲,其成员包括康卡斯特的付费电视公司天空有自己的移动服务,德国移动运营商Freenet和邮政借出单位PosteMobile,突显了股份。
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布鲁塞尔:欧盟监管机构计划使字母的谷歌,元和Netflix集团承担的一些成本的电信网络将扭曲了电信市场,损害竞争,一群小型电信运营商周二表示。
MVNO的警告欧洲,其成员包括康卡斯特公司天空的付费电视公司有自己的移动服务,德国的移动运营商Freenet和邮政借出单位PosteMobile,强调了风险。
大公司如德国电信,橙色的和西班牙电话公司长期以来抱怨网络科技竞争对手搭便车。
他们游说了今年早些时候,欧盟委员会表示,它将在年底前建议立法,迫使部分基金科技竞争对手网络成本。
这些举措可能导致弊大于利,MVNO欧洲在其网站上说。
“我们担心,建议网络对电信市场投资的贡献将严重损害竞争,直接伤害mvno,并最终损害消费者和商业用户,”它说。
mvno(移动虚拟网络运营商)没有自己的网络基础设施,但肩负更大的竞争对手提供他们的服务给他们的客户。
“具体化的建议立法可能导致中断当前的凝视和运输市场目前竞争的基础上完善的商业运作实践,”该集团表示。
“这个提议可能带来不想要的结果,最大的电信供应商将他们的网络服务不仅两次支付(由客户和内容和应用程序提供者),但即使是三倍(这也是选择运营商,但是已经支付网络访问费用),”它说。
数字维权人士也警告称,欧洲的网络中立原则的风险,支持一个开放的互联网。
法国、意大利和西班牙联合提案本月早些时候支持这个想法。
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