If you thought emerging from the other side of a two-year pandemic would result in some sort of humility among network operators and streaming services, think again. A gaggle of tier 1 European telcos are throwing a tantrum aiming to be collectively noisy enough to torment the European Union into having little choice but to make it a legal requirement for OTT video providers to pay proportionately for taking up more and more of their precious bandwidth. In the eyes of Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, and Vodafone, clearly the inflation of broadband prices across Europe, nor the numerous private investment injections, are providing ample funds for network expansion efforts – as the four giants attempt to pluck on a few…