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According to the news on the afternoon of September 26, Beijing time, Google today rejected the request of European telecom operators for large technology companies to finance their network costs, saying that this is a 10-year-old idea that is bad for consumers. And Google has invested millions of dollars in Internet infrastructure.

European telecom operators have long argued that US technology companies such as Google, Meta and Netflix account for more than half of internet traffic and should bear some of the cost of upgrading their infrastructure. Earlier today, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Vodafone, Telef ó nica and more than a dozen other European telecom operators issued their strongest calls for these big technology companies to share network costs for them, especially at a time when the EU is facing an energy crisis and meeting climate change targets.

Subsequently, the European Commission said it would seek feedback from the telecoms and technology industries on the issue in the coming months before deciding whether to put forward any legislative proposals.

Matt Brittin, president of Google's operations and operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, responded that the idea, raised a decade ago, could undermine net neutrality in Europe, where open internet access is bad for consumers.

"the introduction of the 'Sender Pays' principle is not a new idea," Mr Britting said in a speech at a conference organised by ETNO, a telecoms lobby group. "it will subvert many of the principles of opening up the internet. The views of these telecom operators are similar to those we heard a decade or more ago, and we have not yet seen new data to change that." Brittin also said this could have a negative impact on consumers, especially when prices rise.

Mr Britting says Google, as the owner of YouTube, has done its part to improve the efficiency of telecom providers by carrying 99 per cent of traffic. To that end, Google has invested millions of euros. "We spent more than 23 billion euros on capital expenditure in 2021, most of which was spent on infrastructure," he said. "

These include six large data centres in Europe, 20 submarine cables around the world (there are five in Europe), and caching digital content for local networks in 20 regions of Europe.

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