{"id":987393,"date":"2026-01-24T08:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987393"},"modified":"2026-01-24T08:16:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:46:48","slug":"eu-wont-ask-big-tech-to-pay-for-telecoms-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/24\/eu-wont-ask-big-tech-to-pay-for-telecoms-overhaul\/","title":{"rendered":"EU won&#8217;t ask Big Tech to pay for telecoms overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels: The EU will not force the world&#8217;s biggest tech companies to pay for the overhaul of Europe&#8217;s telecoms infrastructure despite pleas from the industry, Brussels announced on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>In a long-running debate, European telecom companies want &#8220;fair share&#8221; payments from tech giants like Netflix for the large amounts of bandwidth they use. <\/p>\n<p>Tech firms oppose this, arguing it would force people to pay twice, first for internet access, then through higher costs for streaming and cloud services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels: The EU will not force the world&#8217;s biggest tech companies to pay for the overhaul of Europe&#8217;s telecoms infrastructure despite pleas from the industry, Brussels announced on Wednesday. In a long-running debate, European telecom companies want &#8220;fair share&#8221; payments from tech giants like Netflix for the large amounts of bandwidth they use. Tech firms oppose this, arguing it would force people to pay twice, first for internet access, then through higher costs for streaming and cloud services.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987393","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=987393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}