Net Neutrality Debate Travels to Europe

[SOURCE: Reuters]
Internet content providers such as Google should pay for using new super-fast Internet access, Deutsche Telekom said in a report published Thursday. "These companies need infrastructure," CEO Kai-Uwe Ricke said. "It cannot be that infrastructure providers like Telekom continue to invest, while others profit from it." Ricke said it would only be fair if content providers like search engine Yahoo--which offers e-mail, online games and music videos--would pay for access to networks that would allow them to deliver their products at higher speeds. "It is not fair that only the customer, via the monthly subscription fee (for using the Internet), pays for this great new world," Ricke said. A Deutsche Telekom spokesman said the company was not seeking to charge Internet content providers for access to infrastructure but rather for offering bandwidth-demanding services such as movie downloads.
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