The network fees folly
One of the central themes to the debate on network fees is that telcos are faced with increasing backhaul costs due to the uptake of streaming services. Some telcos claim market failure because they cannot recover these costs from their customers. This could be the case for operators that mostly offer uncapped or high usage cap baskets and that do not have access to domestic content caches. This is, however, a self-made predicament and not a market failure. Regulatory intervention is only warranted when there is market failure. Mobile operators have offered broadband packages with a dedicated data allowance […]
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