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In EU, Google Accused of YouTube "Free Ride"
An anonymous reader passes along a Financial Times piece that covers a push by EU telecoms to get Google to pay them directly — years after US ISPs began rattling that sword, to little effect thus far. "Some of Europe's leading telecoms groups are squaring up for a fight with Google over what they claim is the free ride enjoyed by the technology company's YouTube video-sharing service. Telefónica, France Telecom, and Deutsche Telekom all said Google should start paying them for carrying bandwidth-hungry content such as YouTube video over their networks.... Some European telecoms groups fear Google will reduce them to 'dumb pipes' because the internet search and advertising company pays the network operators little or nothing for carrying its content. Rick Whitt, a senior policy director at Google in Washington ... said Google was spending large amounts on its own data networks to carry its traffic to the point where it is handed over to telecoms companies round the world." Note that FT.com operates on a "first few per month free" paywall basis.
wow you are stupid.
the issue with microsoft is was the IE story and somewhat governmental.
the companies complaining about google/youtube are not governmental.
the cloud shit has little to do with that. it is 'just' youtube and its ginormous traffic amount....
google was just smart by becoming an ISP and having a connection at certain locations. not my problem that the business of traffic to another provider is such a retarded one. tough shit for the other providers, i paid to use google and youtube... stop complaining!