Barcelona, Spain: a city so important to mobile, the GSM Association has crowned it « Mobile World Capital, » home of the annual Mobile World Congress trade show, through 2018.[…]
« …YouTube is consuming a massive amount of resources on our network. Somebody’s got to pay for that, » said Airtel’s Sunil Bharti Mittal, suggesting that the service pay an « interconnect charge » for the right to deliver its content to operators’ subscribers.[…]
Make no mistake, neither YouTube nor any other service is going to establish hundreds of payment arrangements with carriers around the world, simply because they wish to establish a « bonus » revenue stream to fund capital investment. The next revolution of the connected world is entirely mobile, and if Mittal and his contemporaries get their way, this is the end of the internet as we know it.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/6/2833314/mwc-carriers-net-neutrality