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However, despite the reports, ETNO says that it is not asking the UN to tax the internet.
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Etno says a new business model is needed to provide service providers with the "incentive to invest in network infrastructure".
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The companies are hamstrung by EU regulations on pricing and unbundling of their assets, which ETNO claims is driving its members broke.
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The ETNO model for the Internet would jeopardize this essential freedom.
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Instead of closing the digital divide by generating funds in developing countries as ETNO argues, the proposals would widen it, raising prices and depressing Internet use.
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Proposals put forth by ETNO would harm Internet users in less developed countries, depriving them of a full range of online tools and knowledge because large companies may be reluctant to pay for them to receive access.
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While the ETNO does not deny that it believes that the way that content providers use the internet should be changed, it stopped short of calling for an actual tax, saying instead that it wants telecommunications network operators to consider making deals with content providers.
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The proposal, which was leaked today, has been allegedly introduced by ETNO (European Telecommunications Network Operators Association), a Brussels-based group representing such companies as Belgacom, SwissCom, Cyta, Eircom and Deutsche Telecom, and will be officially discussed at the UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in December.
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As a side-show, a tone-deaf trade association of struggling European telephone companies known as ETNO put on a full-court press to dupe developing nations into endorsing a plan that would subsidize failing local telcos, many of them state-owned, by taxing the most popular Internet content providers, including YouTube, Facebook, and Yahoo!
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