Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

According to news in the morning of January 11, Beijing time, people familiar with the matter revealed that the European Commission is prepared to ask large technology companies and EU telecom operators to submit detailed information on their investment plans and cloud infrastructure plans. The EU is trying to legislate for the former to bear reasonable costs for network costs.

Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, Telecom Italia and several other big telecom operators say the move is aimed at fair cost sharing. In Europe, the top six content providers account for more than half of data network traffic. Google, Netflix, Meta, Amazon and other tech giants see the EU's move as tantamount to a traffic tax, which would hurt Europe's principle of net neutrality.

The European Commission is preparing to release a questionnaire next week to consult the public, but the timing is also likely to change, according to people familiar with the matter. It will be about 12 weeks before the European Commission publishes the draft legislation, and then EU countries and EU lawmakers will study it in depth, and the draft may eventually become law.

The European Commission will ask large technology companies and telecom operators what they are investing in, how to move forward, and whether there is an investment gap. Not only that, the EU wants to know what companies think about the transition to cloud computing infrastructure and the investment needed, as well as the relationship between large technology companies and telecom operators.

In addition, the European Commission wants participants to introduce the practices of other parts of the world, such as South Korea and Australia, in the regulation of online fees in order to learn from them.

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