Orange on account of its size to get paid by Google

Invoking the interdependence between "people of the Net" such as Google and ISPs, p-dg Orange, Stéphane Richard, confirmed that he had managed to weigh the "critical size" group face the U.S. to monetize its network. Free that smaller, try also.
Orange AfricaOrange presence in Africa.Against Google, Orange would he managed to accomplish what Free desperately trying to do? To believe the words of Stéphane Richard, CEO of the incumbent, interviewed on BFM Business, Orange, by its large size, is able to establish "a global power relations" with the U.S. giant. Which is obliged to pay a certain amount to the service provider to use its network.
To weigh in the negotiations, Orange would argue a strong presence in Africa, where it is present in 18 countries, to bend Google. "There are areas where Google can not do without us, for example in Africa. They can not tell us, I need you in Africa, but you'll see in Europe, otherwise I'll manage, "said Stéphane Richard with our colleague. "It's also what makes the value of having a critical size in the world," he added - Orange nearly 230 million customers worldwide.
How is it that Google pays to the French operator? P-dg gave no figures other than the proportion of traffic "managed" by Google networks group "is the order of 50%. This is significant, "However, Stéphane Richard ensures that the payment does not reach" hundreds of millions of euros. " However, the U.S. contribution is made, that tries to get Free also trying to install a power. But in its own way.
Free and in all this?
When Iliad decided to filter advertising - before the release a few days later - and particularly from the advertising to Google, January 7, the operation was designed to put pressure on the U.S.. Free as it would like, as an actor over the top, very bandwidth-intensive, finance a portion of the interconnections. This is what had also earned the delays found on YouTube from a connection Free.
On 14 January, the Minister for Innovation, Flower Pellerin, was supporting Xavier Niel and denounced a difference in treatment between French Dailymotion pays interconnection costs, unlike the parent company of YouTube. "What bothers me is the situation of asymmetry between players. At one point the question arises of actors who have a free ride, "she had said, adding that" it can not last forever. "
For Stéphane Richard, the operation conducted by Free is primarily a "shot com" deemed "very clever, as usual," but which "beware." This output p-dg Orange will be scalded what Xavier Niel, who can not make the same arguments against Google. An asymmetric situation again, where is the question of equity between ISPs.