Commission idea for content tolls draws • Table.Briefings

Who pays for the Internet? The EU Commission is currently looking into whether changes need to be made to the current model: Should particularly large providers of Internet services bear a larger share and pay more for the data traffic for which they are jointly responsible, in other words, a kind of content toll? This is controversial – and the EU Commission is causing uncertainty.

The fact that the Internet has rapidly spread around the world is also due to the unique way it works: In theory, the network of networks is a technologically neutral middleman to which senders and receivers connect and allow data traffic to flow. Both sides pay for the respective costs up to the transfer points, or so the theory goes.

Commission idea for content tolls draws sharp criticism

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