Reuters, July 13, 2011
By Leila Abboud and Gwenaelle Barzic

The bosses of Europe's major telecom companies urged regulators to adopt a lighter touch on big industry mergers and allow them to charge major websites like Google to prioritize their traffic on networks. Neelie Kroes, the European Commissioner for the digital agenda, asked the industry in March to come up with proposals to address growing concerns among governments that telecom operators were not building out fiber optic networks quickly enough, putting the region's long-term economic competitiveness at risk.

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