26 March 2009

New EU Scraps Net Neutrality

It appears that the new EU telecommunications rules are likely to scrap network neutrality completely.

The big incumbent Telcos there are very much in support of this, because milking money out of their monopoly is really their only skill, same as in the good old USA, and the regulators believe that the market will cure everything, "This approach is backed by the European Commission, which argues that if consumers feel their content is somehow being compromised, they will switch to other providers."

Because competition in such matters has worked so well in the most free market telco environment in the industrialized world, where the speeds are the slowest, and the rates are highest, and ISPs lie about their policies.

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