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by tigerente 3883 days ago
With "special services" insufficiently defined, this opens up a lot of possibilities. Just today, Deutsche Telekom announced that "According to our [Deutsche Telekom] ideas, they [startups] pay for it as part of a revenue sharing of a few percent. That would be a fair contribution for the use of infrastructure."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10472765

With "video conferencing, online gaming, telemedicine automated traffic control and self-steering cars up to integrated production processes in the industry" as examples of users needing to pay, this goes a lot further than what has always been argued for by the commission.