Cesar Alierta, CBS 1970 and CEO of Telefonica (the second biggest telecom in the world), said last week that it was only a matter of time that webs such as Google start to be required to distribute some of their benefits to the telecom networks. Under Alierta’s point of view it is not fair that Telecoms make huge investments in infrastructure (i.e. broadband installation, networks…) for low returns, whereas webs such as Google leverage and collapse those networks to make higher profits.
This statement is to be taken very seriously. If the big networks start charging webs that generate humongous traffic, that would definitely erase the web world (or at least change it dramatically). Although I would agree that this is unlikely to happen, just remember: “these companies have deep pockets and my use it for lobby…”
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