Everyone probably knows by now that the European Union (EU) is likely to decide that “big Tech”, meaning the content and social media companies, has to somehow subsidize the telcos. (If not, check this Reuters report from September 30, 2022, “Analysis: European telcos set to win fight with Big Tech, could set global agenda.”) The goal is to offset the cost of the infrastructure they’ve had to deploy to carry the traffic that makes big tech profitable, to raise telco ROI on infrastructure high enough to keep the party going.
