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Google accused of YouTube ‘free ride’

By Andrew Parker in London and Richard Waters in San Francisco

Published: April 9 2010 22:42 | Last updated: April 9 2010 22:42

Some of Europe’s leading telecoms groups are squaring up for a fight with Google over what they claim is the free ride enjoyed by the technology company’s YouTube video-sharing service.

Telefónica, France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom all said Google should start paying them for carrying bandwidth-hungry content such as YouTube video over their networks.