It seems hardly a week goes by where we do not hear of operators at loggerheads with over-the-top platform owners over whether the latter should pay service fees for clogging the former’s networks with traffic. The issue has moved to center stage again in the past few weeks, with large European operators reiterating claims that the firms that profit from their investment in infrastructure – notably hyperscalers and large content providers – should help fund it. The debate particularly focuses on 5G, because of the high operating costs and relatively small capacity of mobile networks compared to fiber. A fireside chat on policy at last week’s Media & Entertainment Summit 2022 showed that European broadcasters and content providers are not…