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Rickety_Crickel t1_iucrrnz wrote

Telecoms are some of the scummiest tech business, if not the most in terms of negative impact to the world 100% due to greedy assholes. I worked for Charter for 5 years as an engineer, management at all levels laughs at customers including large businesses like Visa and small ones like a neighborhood tool store or dental office when they expect the service they pay for and don’t receive it, ie fraud in any other context…

Executives give themselves huge bonuses paid for by US taxpayers that was supposed to go towards building internet infrastructure. It’s complete theft, people should be in jail over it which is also acknowledged and laughed at by management.

No telecom in the world should be privately owned, same for power companies and hospitals. It’s an essential service that parasites have infested. EU will lead the way in de-worming internet infrastructure with help from the US gov or not.

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EdoTve t1_iucszp8 wrote

But this says that european telcos want us tech giants to pay for internet infrastructure, which is bonkers. Telcos in europe are no less greedy or scummy than us ones

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Hilppari t1_iuennqf wrote

My telco spent all its money on 3g rights in germany and got scammed and billions and had to be bailed out by the government and then was bought be swedish telco and merged into telia.

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Martin8412 t1_iudk22c wrote

They absolutely are less greedy. Most IX in Europe are settlement free. That is almost entirely unheard of in the US.

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Nice-Day9373 t1_iueqhkw wrote

nobody connects to IXs theses days, carrier grade transit is the norm.

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Rickety_Crickel t1_iucvdb8 wrote

True, I don’t think EU regulators are looking at US telecom to pay here but service providers like Netflix. Any privately owned telecom will have the same problems that Charter has, but I don’t see a big problem with making billion dollar companies pay when their traffic is effectively being subsidized by tax payers otherwise. At least in the US telecoms are crowding out small and disruptive businesses by prioritizing traffic for big providers and passing the cost onto customers of the telecom instead of the business.

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gordonjames62 t1_iud5wj6 wrote

> EU will lead the way in de-worming internet infrastructure with help from the US gov or not.

I was with you until this.

Greed is not a national problem, but a human problem

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Rickety_Crickel t1_iuin651 wrote

It is an international problem, but I don’t have faith the US will regulate telecom better any point in the future. The EU is making real strides towards setting up better standards for tech giants.

The most significant tech legislation to come from the US in the past decade or so was that domestic chip manufacturing bill which hardly curtails the negative impact these billion dollar companies have.

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yumyumfarts t1_iudqecd wrote

It should be classified as utility and they should be regulated

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