Zivilgesellschaft: Neue Digitalkommissarin soll EU-Datenmaut fallen lassen | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Zivilgesellschaft-Neue-Digitalkommissarin-soll-EU-Datenmaut-fallen-lassen-10000304.html #SenderPays #FairShare

Among this weekend’s achievements: homebrewing a new batch of beer. I hope this coffee porter lives up to its recipe, but I won’t know for another three weeks and change.

This week’s bonus post for Patreon readers covered three ways, two of which can be stacked, to save money on Google storage.

12/6/2023: Twitch to Log Out of South Korea, Citing ‘Prohibitively Expensive’ Costs, PCMag

I am nobody’s idea of a Twitch regular, but seeing this Amazon-owned game streaming service say it will exit an entire country–apparently because of a “sender pays” policy along the lines of what telecom firms in the U.S. have requested–got my attention.

12/6/2023: T-Mobile: Here’s How We Got 5G to Top 4-Gig Download Speeds, PCMag

A speed test under special circumstances isn’t necessarily news, but one of the big three wireless carriers suggesting it could finally find a use for millimeter-wave spectrum it’s sat on for years does rank as news.

12/7/2023: CES 2024 Media Preview, Consumer Technology Association

After months of occasional banter with one of my CTA friends about how I’d like to share some of my hard-won experience with CES, we finally made that happen on this webinar for journalists signed up for the giant gadget gathering next month in Las Vegas. I enlisted my fellow CES veteran and New Jerseyan Andrea Smith, and she may have provided the most value by reminding PR types pitching companies exhibiting at CES that it would help so, so much if their e-mails could specify upfront where in the wide world of CES exhibit space their clients might be found.

12/8/2023: Comcast to Hike TV and Broadband Rates (Yes, Again), PCMag

I wrote a new version of a story I’ve already written for three clients over the past four years: in November of 2019 at Fierce Video, now Stream TV Insider; a year later for Forbes; and then in in December of 2022 at USA Today. I don’t know how I missed this at the end of 2021 and feel bad about that failure to monetize what seems to be an evergreen topic.

https://robpegoraro.com/2023/12/10/weekly-output-twitch-to-exit-south-korea-t-mobiles-5g-speed-test-ces-media-preview-comcast-rate-hikes/

#ces #CES2024 #Comcast #ComcastRateHikes #millimeterWave5G #netNeutrality #senderPays #TMobile #TMobile5G #Twitch #Xfinity

"the sender already pays, and also invests in the infrastructure" https://www.netopia.eu/millimeter-waves-or-network-tax-in-space/ #internettax #traffictax #senderpays #telco
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RT @bertuzluca
Senders-pay: @EP_Economics will vote on the 2022 competition policy report tomorrow. Following AMs from @s_yoncourtin, the report calls for "the establishment of a policy framework where large traffic generators fairly contribute to the adequate …
https://twitter.com/BertuzLuca/status/1650485776587603971

New EU telecom rules will leave everyone worse off https://www.politico.eu/article/new-eu-telecom-rules-will-leave-everyone-worse-off-internet-network/ #telecoms #networkfee #senderpays #internettraffic

The discussion on #networkfees has thus far mainly focused on telecoms and internet platforms. Time then to consider the effect on the creative sector.

https://www.netopia.eu/network-fees-and-the-creative-sector/ #talco #networktax #senderpays

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"The concept of network tax does not really add a new revenue stream but rather a regulation increasing an existing one."

https://www.netopia.eu/millimeter-waves-or-network-tax-in-space/ #internettraffictax #senderpays #Telco #networktax #consumerrights #Starlink #GAAFA #telecomsregulation #eupolicy #TechNews #digital