“It is clear that developing telecommunications infrastructures requires large investments in both the public and private sectors, and all actors benefiting from them must make a fair contribution,” Calviño said. World Mobile Congress (MWC) is the major mobile industry trade show in Barcelona this week.
The European Commission has taken the first step to make big technology companies pay the multimillion-dollar cost of using telecommunication networks, which are only covered by operators. Brussels launched a public consultation last week so the giants Alphabet (Google), Meta (Facebook), Apple, Amazon, Microsoft or Netflix contribute fairly to finance investments made to deploy networks.
The Spanish Government urges Brussels to quickly resolve the public consultation process – in principle the Commission will publish its results next May – in order to formally move forward with the necessary community legislation to enable technology companies to contribute through use. To do? The claim is to be able to approve. New regulations during the Spanish Presidency of the Council of Europein the second half of this year.
“We are in favor of making a legislative proposal to develop this financing model as soon as possible,” so that “the contribution of all agencies, not just telecommunications operators and the public sector,” becomes a reality,” said Calviño.
This Europe’s major telecommunications companies have warned for years that they are tired of undertaking billion-dollar investments alone to deploy networks. demanding a regulatory change from the EU, forcing the major digital platforms of the telephone and internet on which digital transformation is based, to bear a portion of the cost of the telecommunication infrastructures they use to run their business.