Hi,
On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 08:24:13AM +0200, Sebastian Moeller via Starlink wrote:
> [SM] In the EU we have this as a continuous lobbying effort by big
> incumbent ISPs (a move to have the large content providers (CAPs) shoulder
> their "fair" share of the cost of modernizing the networks*), why this flys
> with at least some EU politicians is that the intended payees of this scheme
> are all located outside the EU and hence will have little support by the EU
> citizenry... (The latter is IMHO not fully undeserved either, the days of "do
> no evil" are long behind us and big tech often forgets that we are all in
> this together, but I digress). In the EU one of these days such an effort
> might actually succeed, as much as I dislike this.
And then the local incumbent uses that line of argument to arm-twist
all the smaller ISPs to pay them for traffic into their network...
(and calling up fees well above normal market rates for "transit").
Gert Doering
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