EU Commissioner: I Will End Net Neutrality Waiting Game

An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from ZDNet: "Europeans are a step closer to seeing new net neutrality rules put in place, after the release of an EU regulators' report on how often ISPs and operators throttle their services. On Tuesday, digital agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes said the release of the report from by the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) means she will make recommendations to the EU on preserving net neutrality, which aims to make sure ISPs do not unfairly restrict customers from accessing the service or application or their choice. 'BEREC has today provided the data I was waiting for (PDF). For most Europeans, their internet access works well most of the time. But these findings show the need for more regulatory certainty and that there are enough problems to warrant strong and targeted action to safeguard consumers,' Kroes said in a statement. 'Given that BEREC's findings highlight a problem of effective consumer choice, I will prepare recommendations to generate more real choices and end the net neutrality waiting game in Europe,' she added."

Comments

Under what definition of "unfair?"

[betterunixthanunix]

Let me guess -- ISPs cannot restrict access to websites in order to profit, but governments can order ISPs to restrict access to websites to protect the profits of entertainment companies?

Will NN guidelines include censorship?

[cpu6502]

"You cannot block any website...... except pornography. Or bittorrent sites. Those you can block and in fact, we DEMAND you block them."

Re:USA! Wait... Home of the...?

[interkin3tic]

We separated from England because we didn't get a vote on taxes, yet didn't give most of our citizens the right to vote. We decided we weren't going to be a colony anymore, then went about making our own colonies (and were much more parasitic about it than the English). We prided ourselves on self-sustinence and freedom yet had slave labor long past the point where most other civilized countries had abolished it. And from the outset there were innumerable screwings-over of the previous inhabitants.

It's not like we've only -recently- become hypocrites.

Re:Nice to see someone taking obviously needed ste

[Qzukk]

Customers will complain their skype call or video is jittery. They don't care so much about background downloads.

But when their Vonage calls are always jittery while their Comcast/Xfinity calls work Just Fine, that's when things start to smell funny, with or without background downloads.