Brendan Sasso
TheHill.com
Proposals to expand the U.N.’s International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) authority over the Internet could come up at a treaty conference in Dubai in December. European telecommunications companies are pushing a plan that would create new rules that would allow them to charge more to carry international traffic.
The proposal by the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association could force websites like Google, Facebook and Netflix to pay fees to network operators around the world.
[US Ambassador Terry] Kramer said the idea of an international Internet fee is “gaining more interest in the African states and also in the Arab states.”