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Chickens, eggs, Telefónica and the internet pie

February 18, 2010 by Andrew Eatwell 1 Comment

As the wireless world’s biggest bash got underway in Barcelona this week, the words of Telefónica Chairman César Alierta loomed ominously over web content providers, search engine operators and internet users alike. Ten days before the start of the three-day Mobile World Congress, the world’s largest exhibition for the mobile industry, Alierta had announced plans to make internet search engines pay for using the telecommunication company’s mobile networks. "Internet search engines use our network without paying anything at all, which is good for them but bad for us. It’s obvious that this situation must change, our strategy is to change this," declared the boss of Spain’s largest … [Read more...] about Chickens, eggs, Telefónica and the internet pie

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: Alierta, Google, internet, mobile internet, Mobile World Congress, net neutrality, telecommunications, Telefónica, telephones, Vodafone

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