![]() “Further, we fear this intervention will do nothing to meet Europe's Digital Decade goals, and instead will make the internet experience worse for consumers and small businesses." "We believe regulatory intervention that forces content and application providers into paid peering agreements would have the effect of relegating all other traffic to a slow, congested lane," Cloudflare's post concludes. "Contrary to its intent, these proposals would give the biggest technology companies preferred access to the largest European ISPs." Arts and Conlow wrote.Ĭloudflare prefers settlement-free peering, which it says is less likely to create congestion at interconnection points. And seeing as the EU has proposed network usage charges as part of a raft of measures designed to improve connectivity, Cloudflare's pair assert that the plan for network usage fees is a dud. "By mandating that the CAPs pay the large incumbent telcos for peering, the European Commission would therefore be facilitating discrimination against services using smaller networks and organizations that cannot match the resources of the large CAPs."īig Tech – the CAPs – would therefore emerge with arrangements that mean their traffic gets better treatment than other bits and bytes. "By targeting only the largest CAPs, a proposal based on network fees would perversely, and contrary to intent, cement those CAPs' position at the top by improving the consumer experience for those networks at the expense of all others," Arts and Conlow argue. The Cloudflare post adds that the firm already sees carriers give transit traffic a rough ride on congested networks. Netflix shows South Korea a rerun of 'We Won't Pay Your Telcos For Bandwidth'.Euro-telcos call on big tech to help pay for their network builds.Telcos fear Big Tech will bleed them until they can’t afford network builds.Europe to consult on making Big Tech pay for the networks it floods."After all, if telcos can achieve artificially high prices from the largest CAPs, why would they accept much lower rates from any other network – including transits – to connect with them?" the pair ask. The org's senior manager for public policy in Europe, Petra Arts, and director of network strategy, Mike Conlow, argue in a blog post that "Once there's a price for interconnection between CAPs and telcos, whether that price is found via negotiation, or more likely arbitrators set the price, that is likely to become the de facto price for all interconnection." But Cloudflare worries that the EU's network usage proposal would effectively set a price for transit.
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