EU study to take a closer look at net neutrality

The EU was commissioned, a study such as European ISP handles traffic and manage their networks in a move that could cause new legislation for net neutrality. Both mobile and fixed Internet provider, with intense attention for all the obstacles, which can be exposed to consumers changing operators cover the study of the body of European regulators for electronic communications (BEREC), will be carried out. BEREC will also consult with consumers and businesses, to determine whether ISPs transparent about their traffic be complete management practices or advertised connection speeds. In a speech delivered yesterday, Neelie Kroes, the European Commission Vice President for the digital agenda, conceded that some ISPs restrict some bandwidth heavy services to protect of their networks but promised publicly to call and be action against all operators found stifling competition or consumer choice:

"To mark my words: if measures to improve the competition not enough, to Internet service providers, are real options to offer to bring, I am prepared to prohibit the blocking of legitimate services or applications." It is wrong for Skype and other such services to derated to. That is anti-competitive. "It is not right, rip off consumers on connection speeds."

It is unlikely, however, that legislation implementing the EU, as as the net neutrality rules the FCC revealed in the United States as expansive as the law that Chile last summer introduced. In a report issued yesterday, the EU reaffirmed that "operators may be, determine their own business models and business agreements"-words, which no doubt many in the European ISP community. The results of BEREC investigation will be published by the end of the year.

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