Results for node/net neutrality

June 6, 2016 · Blogs

SAVE THE INTERNET: Good work by BEREC undermined by industry lobbying

Today, 6 June 2016, the Body of European Regulators of Electronic Communications (BEREC) launched the long-awaited public consultation on the implementation of the net neutrality Regulation.

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June 12, 2015 · Blogs

Council confirms it wants to trade net neutrality for end of roaming charges

Commissioner Oettinger confirmed what European Digital Rights (EDRi) has been fearing from the begining on the so-called “trialogues” on the Telecommunications Single Market Regulation: “Council [is] willing to move on end of roaming if [the European Parliament] engages on all open issues”, Commissioner Oettinger said this morning. The Council is so vehemently opposed to net […]

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November 27, 2014 · Blogs

European Parliament fights back hard on net neutrality

After EDRi published a leaked draft by the Italian EU Presidency to weaken proposals on net neutrality, the European Parliament has hit back with a strongly-worded resolution (see paragraphs 8 and 14). The final version will be linked here when available). The resolution was adopted with 458 in favour and 173 against. The resolution re-asserts […]

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October 24, 2012 · Blogs

EDRi responds to umteenth public Net Neutrality consultation

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EU-Konsultation: EDRi nimmt zum x-ten Mal zur Netzneutralität Stellung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.20_EU-Konsultation_EDRi_nimmt_zum_x-ten_Mal_zur_Netzneutralitaet_Stellung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121024] This might sound like a running gag, but on 15 October 2012 EDRi submitted its umteenth response to the European Commission’s umteenth consultation on net neutrality, traffic management, transparency and switching. As explained in the previous EDRi-gram, […]

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October 20, 2021 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Alternatives to dominant digital services | Inclusive technologies | Platform regulation

Closing the Loopholes in EU’s Net Neutrality Framework

The European net neutrality rules are being reformed to fix one of the biggest loopholes in the EU‘s framework: Zero-Rating. EDRi has been vocal about the dangers of Zero-Rating, a practice by which telecoms companies discriminate between online services by making some data traffic more expensive than other such traffic. Prompted by three judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union, the Board of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) has acknowledged that their previous 2016 Guidelines on how to enforce the Net Neutrality Regulation have to be overhauled. The direction of the reform is looking to confirm the previous submissions of EDRi over the past six years and today we add another submission to BEREC with the hope of fixing the last loophole in Europe’s net neutrality framework.  

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April 9, 2014 · Blogs

Net Neutrality – What happens next?

After the big vote on net neutrality in the European Parliament on 3 April 2014, many people are asking “what now”? The answer is that the Council of Ministers of the European Union will decide what parts of the overall “Telecoms Single Market Regulation” it can accept, which parts it wants to amend and which […]

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November 20, 2014 · Blogs

Leaked documents show net neutrality may be in danger!

On 14 November 2014, the Italian Presidency presented amendments to the Telecommunications package for comment by the Member State delegations. We are hereby making the document and its annexes publicly available (Note and addendum). These documents show that the Italian Presidency is now back-pedalling on meaningful net neutrality protections – having previously made some much […]

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February 25, 2015 · Blogs

Net neutrality: Freedom also means banning positive discrimination

Zero rating, also known as “sponsored data”, is the policy of mobile network providers and mobile virtual network providers to not charge their clients for using specific services, such as Facebook or YouTube. Zero rating is a bad idea for several reasons: You give specific services an advantage over their competitors, and push users towards […]

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August 29, 2018 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Equal access to the internet | Transparency

Can you do independent research without being independent?

The European Commission is evaluating how the rules on net neutrality have been implemented across Europe.

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February 27, 2015 · Blogs

So, whatever happened to net neutrality in Europe?

After all of the excitement and jubilation as a result of the US FCC’s ruling on net neutrality, what is going on in Europe? Quite a lot, as it happens. History In September 2013, the European Commission produced a badly drafted, incoherent “Telecoms Single Market Regulation”, which included proposals that claimed to support net neutrality, […]

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March 5, 2015 · Blogs

EU Council proposals on protecting the open internet – Episode 1, the phantom neutrality

After the European Parliament voted to protect net neutrality in April of last year, the EU Council of Ministers has just adopted its text on net neutrality (pdf)*. It claims to aim to defend the open internet, but would, in fact, permit every imaginable breach of net neutrality. The misleading nature of the adopted text […]

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January 29, 2014 · Blogs

EP Committees: Broadly positive votes on net neutrality

In the last two weeks, the three European Parliament Committees have adopted their advisory “opinions” on the European Commission’s proposals on net neutrality – which are part of a wide-ranging Regulation that also covers topics as varied as roaming and spectrum management. These opinions are meant to advise the Committee responsible – the Industry Committee […]

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