[governance] European Parliament votes in favour of net neutrality today

[Narine Khachatryan]

Dear all,

Ofcom published its approaches to Net Neutrality on November 24, 2011

Ofcom set out the steps it expects ISPs to take to ensure customers are
aware how internet traffic is being managed on their networks.


“Although ISPs already provide some consumer information on their use of
traffic management, Ofcom believes it currently does not go far enough and
needs to be made clearer and easier to understand.”

If improvements are not made, Ofcom may use its powers to introduce a
minimum level of consumer information under the revised European framework,
which was implemented into UK law in May 2011 and it contains a new policy
objective to promote Net Neutrality.

Ofcom has set out a basic level of information which ISPs should provide to
their customers at the point of sale including:

Average speed information that indicates the level of service consumers can
expect to receive;

Information about the impact of any traffic management that is used on
specific types of services, such as reduced download speeds during peak
times for peer-to-peer software; and

Information on any specific services that are blocked, resulting in
consumers being unable to run the services and applications of their choice.

Terms used by ISPs to describe their services should also be clear.

In particular, a consumer paying for ‘internet access’ should expect this
to include the full range of services available over the open internet.

ISPs should not use the term ‘internet access’ to refer to a service that
blocks lawfully available internet services.


Read the whole article here...

http://consumers.ofcom.org.uk/2011/11/improving-traffic-management-transparency/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Tweet&utm_campaign=net-neutrality


Ofcom approach to Net Neutrality...
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/consultations/net-neutrality/statement/statement.pdf


On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <
salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Narine Khachatryan <
> ms.narine.khachatryan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  European Parliament votes in favour of net neutrality today (Nov 17,
>> 2011)
>> Thanks Narine :) This is very useful reading :)
>> www.computing.co.uk<http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2125866/european-parliament-votes-favour-net-neutrality>
>> : The European Parliament has today seen a big majority vote in favour
>> of adopting its  resolution<http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=MOTION&reference=B7-2011-0572&language=EN> on
>> Net Neutrality. This votes represent a political commitment by the
>> European Parliament to protecting the Internet from any form of restriction
>> or censorship. The adopted resolution<http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=MOTION&reference=B7-2011-0572&language=EN>
>>  states: "[The European Parliament] calls further on the Commission to
>> ensure that internet service providers do not block, discriminate against,
>> impair or degrade the ability of any person to use a service to access,
>> use, send, post, receive or offer any content, application or service of
>> their choice, irrespective of source or target."
>>
>> It is not known exactly how many members of the European Parliament voted
>> in favour of the resolution, but those close to the matter suggest the
>> decision was almost unanimous.
>>
>>
>> The resolution:
>> http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=MOTION&reference=B7-2011-0572&language=EN
>>
>> The full article :
>> http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2125866/european-parliament-votes-favour-net-neutrality
>>
>> Nariné Khachatryan
>>
>>
>>
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