Some appeared us particularly sémillantesonly for the damage caused to other road usersThe path that is both realistic and courageousBut the Government cannot claim victory so farFinally the restrictive and protective legal regime already defined by articles lWe do not want the Government to assume all risksSide also transport network should investThe risk management gauge also qualitatively However this study presents a faulty methodologyIn short a triple ban to be lazy or negligentContent providers and network operators still look in earthenware dogs. Both worlds are crossed in Montpellier, France, during the two days of debates organised by the Institute of audiovisual and telecommunications in Europe (Idate). Telecoms operators requesting them to contribute Yahoo! the Dailymotion and other Myspace remained deaf to the appeals of the foot the fiber. According to the operators, videos, TV on the Internet and content generated by millions of Internet users threaten to saturate the infrastructure. And the Government's goal to achieve 100 of the population in broadband here in 2012 will not arrange things. "Show me the money!" launched Sally Davis, CEO at BT Wholesale. "Investing in the Internet of the future, this has a cost. Someone must pay. "It is time to find a new economic model to a growing demand for content", she continued. Telecom operators are unwilling to be the only ones to bear the burden of the "network of networks". According to Idate, Internet traffic continues to increase by 10 per year. Online video consumption exploded at a rate of 100 per year. However the "bandwidth" (network capacity) has increased by 68 last year.
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"The heart of our network will quadruple capacity in the next three years." Will "have to make huge investments", Mike Corkerry, Executive Director of regulatory affairs for ATT for Europe is concerned. "Who will pay" he also questioned, with a warning: "If we were to support only all loads, prices would increase and users could no longer pay." Distributors of content, they do not intend to put the hand in the Pocket. "It is not question for aggregators of content as we contribute to the financing of the networks." It providers to access to the Internet to do so. "Because they are the ones who sell access broadband and charge the subscribers networks offers", indicated in the "Echos" Martin Rogard, Director General of Dailymotion France.
Telecom operators also want to make their networks "intelligent and dynamic", i.e. able to "differentiate between traffic" in real time. "Government should not impose rules that prevent us to adapt our network uses", considered the leader of ATT. "We want to be able differentiate services and monetize them," said the leader of BT. But for Dailymotion, it is vain for telecoms operators to question the principle of "Internet neutrality" that guarantees users equal access to all services or online of their choice, without any access degraded. Have discriminated against the access to the BitTorrent download service, the American cable-operator Comcast was convicted in August last by the FCC, the federal regulator. In Europe, this type of dispute between "pipes" and content cannot be settled by the national regulator. And for good reason: the current European regulation does not allow them to arbitrate disputes between service providers and service providers. France, or Constable of telecoms, Arcep, nor the audiovisual, the CSA, are competent to resolve a dispute such as the one reached in 2007 between Neuf Cegetel and Dailymotion, the first having limited access to the second. The future European access directive, which will soon be adopted, will address them. Yesterday, in Montpellier, the Chairman of Arcep, Paul Champsaur, again expressed in favour of a "neutrality of the Internet a minimum", believing that the operators must charge their customers of rates higher for better access.
