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Investment gap for European telecom companies doesn’t exist, Dutch government says

By Matthew Newman ( June 1, 2023, 16:47 GMT | Insight) -- The Dutch government has argued that more evidence is needed to justify a plan to impose fees on large content providers to pay for telecom network upgrades, arguing that there’s no “investment gap” between the EU and other regions. The Dutch policy paper comes ahead of a meeting of EU telecom ministers on Friday and a debate over fees that would be imposed on the likes of Google's YouTube, Facebook and Netflix.The Dutch government has argued that more evidence is needed to justify a plan to impose fees on large content providers to pay for telecom network upgrades, arguing that there’s no “investment gap” between the EU and other regions....

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