The death of the internet is confirmed a little more in Brussels
The big bosses of telecoms gathered by Brussels to floor on the modes of financing of very high speed short-term in the European Union gave birth, not surprisingly, of a series of proposals which bury the neutrality of the net for the benefit of a access to several internets, more or less rich depending on the paid subscription. Proposals that break down the door already opened by the European Commission.
Remember. It was last March. Without much ado, the European Commission brought together in Brussels nearly forty big telecoms bosses: Steve Jobs (Apple), Xavier Niel (Free), Stéphane Richard (Orange), Jean-Phillipe Courtois (Microsoft), Jean-Bernard Lévy (Vivendi), Stephen Elop (Nokia), ..
The purpose of the meeting was to ask manufacturers how, in their opinion, "to best ensure the very high-level private sector investments necessary for the deployment of next-generation broadband networks to maintain the growth of the Internet". The Commission wishes to make possible the objective set by Europe's Digital Agenda, which provides for all Europeans to have access to the Internet at a minimum of 30 Mbps by 2020, and at least half of them to 100 Mbps.
To develop the proposals, a composed steering group was appointed, made up of Jean-Bernard Lévy of Vivendi, Ben Verwaayen of Alcatel-Lucent, and René Obermann of Deutsche Telekom. "Proof that, right from the composition of the group, there is the will to find a balance between the funding of networks and the funding of content, which is never a very good sign for net neutrality", we then felt.
The result is even worse than our fears of the time, and confirms the trend expressed by the European Commission last month, when it said it wanted to favor the free market in defense of net neutrality.
11 proposals to bury network neutrality
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Suite / source: http://www.numerama.com/magazine/19348- ... elles.html
Example of what an "à la carte" internet could be, the only free thing is social networks ... a curious conception of "freedom"
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