Europe’s leading telcos have renewed their periodic demands for big tech firms, whose services consume so much of their bandwidth, to help pay for ongoing infrastructure deployment, especially fiber and 5G now. This is the latest in a long-running saga dating back two decades, with operators baying for cash from the firms they consider profit most from the capacity they provide. Such clamors are not confined to Europe but have also come from operators in the USA and Asia-Pacific, but the loudest clamor has come from the big European Union-based telcos, perhaps reflecting concerns over the seemingly ever-increasing dominance of the big USA Internet giants in the continent. There has been a slight changing of the guard over the years,…