MADRID, 3 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Google has expressed its rejection of the tax for the use of the network proposed by telecommunications operators to compensate for the increase in traffic generated by the greater use by Internet and content giants.
“Nobody would hire broadband without content providers. We all need each other,” company sources have told Europa Press, which invested 24,000 million dollars (24,240 million euros at the exchange rate) in infrastructure last year.
In the sector as a whole, the Analisys Mason consultancy has raised the volume of investment in infrastructure by the main content providers to 883,000 million dollars (891,508 million euros) in the last decade.
Likewise, technology sources have highlighted the agreements between both types of companies when providing their services and developing projects as an example of the synergies between both actors in the digital world.
On the other hand, another of the arguments transferred from technology is that the operating costs of telecommunications have remained more or less flat in contrast to the increase in traffic.
In fact, the Board of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) ruled two weeks ago on the possible tax and concluded that the cost of using the network is very low compared to the total costs of telecommunications networks.
On the other hand, a report from the employers of the ‘telecos’ indicated that the traffic of the digital platforms represented between 36,000 and 40,000 million euros per year in costs for the sector.
Telecommunications operators have intensified in recent months the demand that content providers pay for the use of the network due to the growing costs of maintaining it due to the increase in Internet traffic.
Given this debate, the European Commission plans to launch a consultation on the possibility of imposing this rate on large technology companies at the beginning of next year.
