France Telecom really wants to cost large content suppliers for moving their own visitors upon its network, expressing the idea of “data termination rates”, alike to the phone end of contract prices which operators charge one another for carrying calls on their networks, according to the senior management. Senior Executive Vice President, Pierre Louette also Group General Secretary of France Telecom, speaking to Technology Europe, stated time arrived to review two of the concepts of the web.

“There are two principles on which the web created: zero-price rule, as well as non-discrimination guideline. Fundamental essentials two vital principles being asked today. Are we able to totally develop the near future from the Web without revisiting those 2 concepts?” he stated. Europe’s biggest Internet supplier, trading internationally as Orange, had been considering it is commercial peering deals.

He stated that content material providers were, in effect, getting a totally free service..“At Barcelona, Eric Schmidt, then CEO of Google, last year, stated that telecom operators present there asked  him  ‘how would you begin to see the long term, are you going to end up with investing in networks?’ Mr. Schmidt replied ‘no, you guys develop the systems, all of us take the money’. That is what he said, in a nutshell, a minimum of that is what I heard.”

“Today upon numerous events the European subnetwork gets up to Ten times the data it sends,” Mr. Louette stated. “The Western operators, or even worldwide providers that aggregate that sort of traffic, have been in a completely asymmetric connection; these people receive way more than they send. So it’s not examining anymore. All of us receive this particular vast run of data and we are supposed to create the systems according to the data we obtain. At the same time we don't get more money from this data than i was getting in yesteryear.

Mr. Louette stressed which France Telecom was not likely to take on so-called heavy box inspection, a procedure by which system providers look at this content of the information packages these people carry, and may jammed, or even prevent, certain kinds of visitors, or even particular sources.