German watchdog ramps up rhetoric against US Web giants | total telecom

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> German watchdog ramps up rhetoric against US Web giants
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> Bundesnetzagentur insists Google, Facebook should be regulated like telcos
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> Germany's telco watchdog on Thursday reiterated its conviction that US Web giants like Google and Facebook should be 
> subject to the same regulations as operators.
>
> The Bundesnetzagentur is in the midst of a protracted legal battle with Google after it ordered the company to 
> register Gmail as a telecoms service, which would require Google to provide access to law enforcement agencies. 
>
> In a report by the Financial Times, Bundesnetzagentur president Jochen Homann insisted that in the age of OTT 
> services like WhatsApp, consumers don't distinguish between communicating over the Internet or via traditional telco 
> services.
>
> The Google case is currently being heard by the European Court of Justice; Homann said if the decision goes his way, 
> Bundesnetzagentur will order other OTT communication providers to register as telcos too.
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> "It cannot be right that a company providing traditional telecommunications services has to meet certain regulatory 
> requirements, like those concerning data protection, while a company providing comparable services over the Web does 
> not," he said in the report.
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> Echoing the oft-repeated sentiments of European telecoms incumbents, Homann invoked the now-legendary "level playing 
> field" between telcos and OTTs.
>
> "We want these companies to meet the same regulatory requirements in principle as conventional telecommunications 
> companies," he said.
>
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