EU telco ministers side with big tech on fair contribution

The majority of European lawmakers appear to be unconvinced by the idea of charging content companies for the traffic they generate.
According to a Reuters report on Saturday, EU telecoms ministers met last Thursday to discuss the matter with internal market commissioner Thierry Breton. Sources cited by the newswire claim that 18 of them rejected a proposal to levy a network fee on so-called CAPs (content and application providers), or demanded further investigation into it.
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