The ecu has commissioned an investigation into how European ISPs handle traffic and manage their networks, in a move which may end in new legislation on net neutrality . The investigation, to be conducted by the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC), will cover both mobile and glued Internet providers, with particularly close attention paid to any barriers consumers may face when changing operators. BEREC will even talk to consumers and companies to make your mind up whether ISPs are being completely transparent about their traffic management practices, or advertised connection speeds. In a speech delivered yesterday, Neelie Kroes, the ecu Commission’s Vp for the Digital Agenda, admitted that some ISPs ought to restrict some bandwidth-heavy services that allows you to protect their networks, but promised to publicly name and take action against any operators found to be stifling competition or consumer choice:
“Mark my words: if measures to augment competition are usually not enough to bring Internet providers to provide real consumer choice, i’m able to prohibit the blocking of lawful services or applications. It’s not OK for Skype and other such services to be throttled. It really is anti-competitive. It’s not okay to rip off consumers on connection speeds.”
It’s unlikely, however, that the european will implement legislation as pointed because the net neutrality rules the FCC unveiled within the US, nor as expansive because the law that Chile introduced last summer. In a report issued yesterday, the european affirmed that “operators needs to be allowed to make a decision their very own business models and commercial arrangements” — words that indisputably delighted many in Europe’s ISP community. The result of BEREC’s investigation are because of be published by the tip of the year.
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