European Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton said there is not necessarily a 'battle over fair share between Big Telco and Big Tech.'
, chew through gargantuan amounts of data and should therefore foot part of the bill for adding new capacity to cope with the increased strain.
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, European Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton suggested that regulation in the EU was no longer fit for purpose and that it was time to reconsider how the current model works. "The consultation has been described by many as the battle over fair share between Big Telco and Big Tech. A binary choice between those who provide networks today and those who feed them with the traffic."
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