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 collective tantrum, aiming to lobby the European Union to make it a legal requirement for over-the-top video providers to pay proportionately for taking up more and more precious telco network bandwidth. Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone claim that Europe’s telecoms market risks falling behind rivals. In an open letter penned in the Financial Times, the four operator CEOs (including Orange’s outgoing Stéphane Richard) have pounced on one particular comment made in the European Commission’s digital rights declaration made a month ago. This…