Fair Share levy: Germany sees no need

Will the Commission make a proposal in 2023 that Netflix, Amazon, and Co. should help finance broadband expansion in the future? The European Telecommunications Network Operator’s Association ETNO has been beating the drum for „Fair Share“ for years. But the German government thinks little of the Commission’s ideas so far.

Is it still coming – or is it not? In May, Commission Vice-President Margrethe Vestager and Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton opened a discussion on whether companies whose Internet traffic makes particular use of the capacities should not also have a greater share of the high costs of network expansion. Spain, France, and Italy, in particular, had advocated this. But the EU Commission has made no proposal for regulation so far.

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