Vodafone and Meta have revealed details of a network capacity collaboration, with revelatory promise, which unfortunately do not reveal very much at all. The Vodafone announcement comes days after a similar video traffic optimization deployment between Meta and Telefonica in Spain. Some have interpreted these telco-media tie-ups as burying-the-hatchet moments for the divisive fair share network debate. Wireless Watch’s video-focused sister service, Faultline, warns that we would not be so hasty. Ultimately, telcos want to continue increasing traffic on networks and investing in networks, but with financial and engineering support from companies like Meta which are driving much of the traffic growth from short-form video consumption, increasingly over mobile networks. The likes of Meta do not want to pay up,…