Google ‘No Enemy’ of Phone Operators as Sarkozy Weighs Rules

Google Inc., Facebook Inc. and mobile-phone operators are seeking to ease tensions over who will pay for wireless networks as data use surges and leaders including France’s Nicolas Sarkozy consider more regulation.

A compromise can be found between operators urging direct compensation for investment in faster networks and Google, Facebook and Apple Inc., France Telecom SA Chief Executive Officer Stephane Richard said in an interview. A “very open” meeting last week with Google CEO Larry Page in Mountain View, Calif., convinced him that a deal is possible, he said.