{"id":951589,"date":"2025-08-01T07:21:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T01:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=951589"},"modified":"2025-08-01T07:32:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T02:02:06","slug":"network-fee-on-big-tech-not-a-viable-solution-to-boost-eu-digital-rollout-eu-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/01\/network-fee-on-big-tech-not-a-viable-solution-to-boost-eu-digital-rollout-eu-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Network fee on Big Tech not a viable solution to boost EU digital rollout, EU says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS: The European Commission does not think that imposing a network fee on Big Tech companies is a viable solution to the debate over who should fund the rollout of 5G and broadband, a spokesman for the EU executive said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The issue pits Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica and Telecom Italia against Alphabet&#8217;s Google, Meta&#8217;s Facebook, Netflix, Microsoft and Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>Europe&#8217;s major telecoms operators have for years urged EU regulators to get Big Tech to bear some of the rollout costs because they make up a huge part of internet traffic, calling it fair share funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS: The European Commission does not think that imposing a network fee on Big Tech companies is a viable solution to the debate over who should fund the rollout of 5G and broadband, a spokesman for the EU executive said on Thursday. The issue pits Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica and Telecom Italia against Alphabet&#8217;s Google, Meta&#8217;s Facebook, Netflix, Microsoft and Amazon. Europe&#8217;s major telecoms operators have for years urged EU regulators to get Big Tech to bear some of the rollout costs because they make up a huge part of internet traffic, calling it fair share funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}