[governance] Neelie Kroes's Next Steps on Net Neutrality

[Carlos A. Afonso]

How do you "vote with your feet" if you have only one provider or a
cartel fixing prices? But probably this is a non-issue in the heaven
called Europe...

--c.a.

On 05/30/2012 07:30 AM, Louis Pouzin (well) wrote:
> It would be relevant to hear Neely Kroes on ICANN monopoly. But that's
> taboo in the European Commission. EC neutrality is not on the agenda.
> - - -
> 
> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Pranesh Prakash <pranesh at cis-india.org
> <mailto:pranesh at cis-india.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Dear all,
>     EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes recently posted this on her blog.
> 
>     > But I do not propose to force each and every operator to provide
>     full Internet: it is for consumers to vote with their feet. If
>     consumers want to obtain discounts because they only plan to use
>     limited online services, why stand in their way? And we don’t want
>     to create obstacles to entrepreneurs who want to provide tailored
>     connected services or service bundles, whether it’s for social
>     networking, music, smart grids, eHealth or whatever. But I want to
>     be sure that these consumers are aware of what they are getting, and
>     what they are missing.
> 
>     [..]
> 

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