Facebook , Google , and Netflix are all parts of the Internet many of us regard fundamental . And now , a lobby group buy at by salient European telecom corporations is pushing for a bandwidth use fee which would force companies like these topay up for their net activityon the other side of the Atlantic . Ugh .
agree to Cnet , the proposal was submitted by the European Telecommunications internet Operators Association to the Internet Telecommunication Union , a wing of the United Nations . Up until now , Internet backbone operators have arranged mutual agreement with one another to permit traffic to flow freely . Cnet says this propose legislature would change all that , forcing companies to negotiate one by one . These negotiations could be a society like Google billions of buck per year .
The government , perhaps predictably , is not felicitous about these negotiations considering that many of the world ’s biggest cyberspace companies are American , but Cnet say others in the Internet community are also implicated that such a decision could mean developing nations will lose access to many democratic services .
The sender - pays framework would in all likelihood cue U.S.-based cyberspace serving to freeze off connections from substance abuser in developing res publica , who would become unaffordably expensive to communicate with , predicts Robert Pepper , Cisco ’s frailty president for global engineering science policy .
The thought of this becoming standard practice across the globe is one that vocalise frightening . [ CnetviaSlashdot ]
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