The European Parliament adopted a law on net neutrality and abolished roaming tariffs

European Parliament adopted a package of key laws on the reform of the telecommunications industry, together with important поправками, who correctly formulate and defend the principle of net neutrality.

Amendments were made at the last minute block of socialist, liberal, left-wing parties and the party of "green". This happened after the consideration of the laws in the final committee of representatives from the telecommunications industry, which attempted to introduce a number of loopholes in it, including the right to classify any telecom web service as a "specialized services" with the installation of specific priorities for its traffic.

Fortunately, "Trojan horses" was removed from the legislation, but left the most important amendments 234-236, which set forth the so-called "strong definition of" net neutrality and specialized services, so that service providers now can not arbitrarily to cut someone else's traffic by promoting your service the same functionality.

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The term "network neutrality" refers to the principle according to which all Internet traffic is considered equivalent, without discrimination, restrictions and intervention, regardless of the sender, the recipient, type of traffic, content, device, service or application. Blockquote>
In addition to network neutrality, the package includes new laws, which are designed to abolish roaming tariffs for all mobile operators in Europe and to create a single open market of telecommunication services.

Lack roaming tariffs, inter alia, it is important for the "Internet of Things" - millions of devices which are connected to a network, such as GSM. Recently, the Netherlands became the first country allowed to issue and sell SIM-card to any legal entity, so that car manufacturers and smartphones can take advantage of this opportunity - and immediately sell Soup c SIM-cards, which are recorded in any mobile network while maintaining the rooms and the lack of roaming tariffs.

The whole package of laws must be approved by more in the new parliament, which will meet after the elections in May 2014.

The representative of the Swedish Pirate Party in the European Parliament Anderdotter Amelia (Amelia Anderdotter) поблагодарила colleagues for the proper selection and support package of laws. She expressed the hope that the major telecoms no longer able to carry out a discriminatory policy against its users, which contributes to a more open Internet environment, and promote innovation.

Representatives of the association of mobile operators GSMA, in turn, выразили dissatisfaction initiative of the European Parliament and stressed that the operators "should be able to tailor services to the needs of users and to charge different prices for different products." In addition, the lack of roaming revenue alleged negative impact on investment in infrastructure, will hit the economy and the labor market. However, operators clearly show false modesty: for reference, only one operator TeliaSonera last year was 1, 69 billion euros of net profit margins of about 14 % .

Source: habrahabr.ru/post/218185/