Apple and Google should contribute to the investments which KPN is doing in its mobile networks. That says Eelco Blok, ceo of KPN, in an interview. That Apple and Google do not pay, calling the director ‘an unsustainable situation’.
Companies like Apple, Google and Facebook would have to pay them because of the networks will benefit, says KPN-director Block in an interview with Elsevier magazine. “They use our networks without that they contribute financially to investments in those networks. That is an untenable situation in the telecom sector. I think that companies should contribute, but I just don’t know how.”
Apple does with iMessage, an alternative to sms, while Google does the same with Google Talk, and Facebook with its chat functionality, notice Elsevier.
KPN is not the first provider with such a point of view. Last year, it appeared that T-Mobile international in discussion with the companies for this reason. Also, Vodafone has been running with such ideas around.
If KPN extra income should be generated, the re-increase of the prices for mobile internet a possibility. “That is really inevitable to the quality of the network to maintain.” The director Consumer of KPN suggested this week all about the same; he said that customers on average 40 euros per month have to pay KPN the cost want to work. That average this fall to 24 euro per month.
Block also believes that the controversy over deep packet inspection, a technique for network traffic analysis, was unfounded. KPN came this spring under fire when a top executive said that KPN already years dpi will be used to compare behavior of customers. “It is remarkable that there is such a sharp debate about dpi was conducted, while companies like Apple and Facebook really everything you know and save. They even know which apps I have downloaded on my iPad. That the discussion about us going, I find very special. We never look to the content of the messages.”
Block followed in april Ad Started as director of KPN. Almost immediately after his arrival, he announced a major layoff, in which thousands of Dutch people had to be dismissed. He also made when his plan for a ‘chatheffing’, enabling users to to the extra you would have to pay if they movies want to view or want to chat through WhatsApp on their phone. The Second Room put a stop to that plan by at a breakneck pace net neutrality in the telecom law. Therefore providers have no different rates for different types of internet traffic.