France Telecom says online firms should pay for network

Telephone and Internet provider France Telecom on Thursday said Google and others should be billed according to how much traffic they generate on French networks.”Using the network (of a provider in France) should be subject to a charge. Those who generate a lot of traffic should contribute according to the traffic they generate,” the director general of France Telecom Stephane Richard said.To read this AFP report in full, see:
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