Stupid politicians lining their own pockets.
Its worth noting that data roaming charges are being abolished, as mentioned in the same agreement
Funny the BBC misses the net nutrality part http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33325031
Sometimes you got to wonder about the EU.
@wendell @Logan two interesting news pieces for the tek maybe?
This is the affecting paragraph
In parallel, Internet access providers will still be able to offer
specialised services of higher quality, such as Internet TV and new
innovative applications, so long as these services are not supplied at
the expense of the quality of the open Internet.
The internet in the EU (bias warning my experience is mainly from the UK) has been for the most part mainly neutral in its access. I don't know off the top of my head any ISP who has deliberately slowed down the 'open internet' to prioritize there own service.
That said, I think they will need to be very clear about what constitutes "expense of the quality of the open internet"
It will be interesting to see exactly how this will look, but the wording suggests that you could run your competing TV services (example) over the 'open internet' and wouldn't be hindered by any restrictions.
If Netflix goes up in price because of this, I'm going to flip some tables!
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Although, I don't think UK ISPs will take advantage of this in the same way that US ISPs would.
This wouldn't affect Netflix, at least not in the sense that it is in the US.
UK ISPs would take advantage of this though as BT provide a TV service using the internet and I think Virgin Media do this also.
The question will be how they can do such a thing without affecting normal internet traffic. My only thought would be if they built additional infrastructure to take on the capacity of the "specialist services", but then that adds the question, would that money have been used to improve the open internet, in which case does that not mean that the open internet was adversely affected by it.
This is not a simple topic and I am far from an expert, but I am assuming that you won't be able to offer traditonal internet services using "specialised services", i.e. you won't be able to access the internet through specialised services.
Basically, you couldn't have your service operate on both the "open internet" and through "specialised services". So there will be no competition between the two tiers. It will either be a specialised service such as IPTV (and you will pay through the nose for it) or it will be a regular web service that you access internet (as we know it).
As I see it, this is simply a matter of using the same infrastructure for both the internet, and for other services that require high speed/quality data transmission.
this is why I hate the EU from time to time, the EU is mostly pro-consumer with many good consumer protection laws and such, they where for net neutrality not long ago, it is the flip flopping that grinds my gears I guess..