EdoTve t1_iucszp8 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 10:36 AM

Reply to comment by Rickety_Crickel in U.S. tech giants face pressure from Europe’s telcos to pay for building the internet by thinkB4WeSpeak

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

Hilppari t1_iuennqf wrote on October 30, 2022 at 7:22 PM

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.

Martin8412 t1_iudk22c wrote on October 30, 2022 at 2:55 PM

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

Nice-Day9373 t1_iueqhkw wrote on October 30, 2022 at 7:41 PM

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

Rickety_Crickel t1_iucvdb8 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 11:08 AM

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.