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Commissioner Kroes’ letter to MEPs on net neutrality – now with subtitles
Letter to Members of the European Parliament, published by Neelie KROES on Tuesday, 01/04/2014 Open letter Translation If adopted, the European Commission’s Connected Continent regulation will lead to ending roaming charges by end 2015 on voice, text and data, ensure more coherent rules on spectrum allocation, set out the principles of net neutrality in the […]
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April 3rd – Decision day for net neutrality in Europe
The battle to preserve the open internet is reaching its final stage, with the big European Parliament vote taking place on April 3rd. The report adopted by the Industry Committee two weeks ago includes provisions undermining the principle of net neutrality, putting the open internet and freedom of speech at risk. The good news is that […]
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AT&T’s “sponsored data” – a toll-road to nowhere
On 6 January, the US fixed and mobile operator AT&T announced a “service” allowing online services (such as search engines, social media, etc) to pay (“sponsor”) the data costs of end-users. Currently, people often have to pay for data that they download from the internet, whereas AT&T’s programme would allow certain services to be provided […]
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