French lawmakers approve €0.055 per gigabyte tax on internet traffic
helloplanets · hn · 2026-10-31
France's National Assembly has approved a tax of €0.055 for every gigabyte of internet traffic. The per-byte levy could raise costs for bandwidth-heavy services like streaming and AI inference, and the HN discussion is already weighing how ISPs and cloud providers will pass it on.
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