EU wants to enforce net neutrality, outlawing throttling and site blocks
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[url]http://www.zdnet.com/online-throttling-and-site-blocking-to-be-outlawed-in-europe-under-net-neutrality-plan-7000016324/[/url]
[quote]ISPs will be barred from blocking or throttling customers' access to services that rival their own under new net neutrality rules that could soon be enforced across Europe.
The European Commission said that around 100 million Europeans face restrictions on their internet services because ISPs are reluctant give customers access to services which compete with their own offerings.
Plans to mandate net neutrality now being put forward by the EC's digital chief, Commission vice president Neelie Kroes, would prevent anti-competitive blocking of rival services.[/quote]
This is from the European Comission, so it's slightly more promising. However, remember:
[quote]If net neutrality is taken forward as a recommendation, it could be in place by December this year, while if it is made into a tougher regulation, it will take until Easter 2014 to pass both the European Parliament and European Council, and even then won't actually be law in each of the EU member states until 2015.[/quote]
It's not being voted on or such yet, so hold your breath.
[QUOTE=Hizan;40899819]Late: [url=http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1275553]showthread.php?t=1275553[/url][/QUOTE]
You have GOT to be kidding me. Second thread now. I am blind.
When the EU does stuff like this, which stops consumers being raped by companies, I can live with them, like when they made a limit on how much telephone companies could charge when you are abroad in the EU. It makes me believe they can actually get this through.
[QUOTE=magravn;40899874]When the EU does stuff like this, which stops consumers being raped by companies, I can live with them, like when they made a limit on how much telephone companies could charge when you are abroad in the EU. It makes me believe they can actually get this through.[/QUOTE]That's the biggest advantage of the EU imo; an entire continent declaring an anti-consumer practice illegal is a hell of a lot more effective than a single country.
Didn't the EU also push for MicroUSB to be the standard for Cellphones and mobile devices?
That was a major thing I love them for.
ive been throttled
i get under 1 mbps upload and download
heck i live near some free pub wifi, its faster then mine
[QUOTE]Kroes also said there should be more transparency, particularly in consumer broadband contracts, so people can understand what they are really buying. "We all deserve a clear promise before signing up — not a nasty surprise after. After all, when you buy a carton of milk, you don't expect it to be half-empty: the same goes for 50Mbps internet."[/QUOTE]
For some reason I had this belief that the EU was heavily controlled by corporate interests. This is beautiful and I hope they go through with this. Maybe other countries can learn from this example.
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;40904302]For some reason I had this belief that the EU was heavily controlled by corporate interests.[/QUOTE]
Perhaps then, you should read something that does not paint complex organizations as some kind of simplistic bogeyman.
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