In the months since the GSM Association weighed in with aand data claiming that Alphabet, Meta, Netflix, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft together account for 57 percent of all network traffic and 57 percent of global profits earned in the"internet value chain".
The GSM Association points out that Big Tech also enjoys very high profit margins, while carriers are burdened with disproportionate capital expenditure and operate at far lower margins.but focuses on infrastructure that ensures its own services are efficient. Carriers are left to build the networks that funnel traffic to Big Tech – even though doing so strains their finances.
to promote the environmental sustainability benefits that can flow from digital technology. The Commission has also seldom been shy of giving Big Tech a kicking over competition issues and may relish the chance to have another crack on the issue of infrastructure costs. The letter was signed by CEOs from Swisscom, Telekom Austria Group, United Group, Bouygues Telecom, Proximus Group, Telenor Group, Fastweb, Altice Portugal, Orange Group, Deutsche Telekom, BT Group, Telia, TIM Group, Telefónica, Vodafone Group, and the chair of Dutch carrier KPN. ®
Source: Financial Digest (financialdigest.net)
Begging for money to actually do the only thing they even exist for