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EU to abandon net neutrality on Internet speed | Business News | DW.DE | 17.07.2013
Now this isn't really something that will affect private people, or at least, not initially. So if you are a private citizen and want to get high speed internet, it doesn't really mean much for you. It's about companies and corporations who need massive internet traffic to work... like for instance youtube, amazon or a news outlet. So yeah.
This basically means that ISPs who win the contract to service large companies who need massive amounts of internet traffic can be a lot more lucrative. Is this good? Is it bad? I don't know.
German business daily Handelsblatt has reported the EU Commission plans to allow Internet providers to charge customers for higher speeds and better service quality. The policy is part of new EU rules on Internet access.
Content Providers and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) were free to negotiate agreements on volume tariffs and different qualities of data transmission for Internet users, Handelsblatt quoted the document as saying.
The new rule would undo the EU's previous policy of ensuring so-called network neutrality - a principle which states that ISPs must not give any content preferential treatment and that any video, article or web page should get just as much bandwidth as another.
Supporters of net neutrality warn that if the policy is abandoned, ISPs will create fast lanes for web traffic on which content from paying providers will be given priority of those who don't pay.
Earlier this year, Rösler was one of the staunchest critics of attempts by German telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom to impose data limits on Internet connections. After a public outcry, the company eventually gave up its plan to throttle the speed for heavy Internet users.
Now this isn't really something that will affect private people, or at least, not initially. So if you are a private citizen and want to get high speed internet, it doesn't really mean much for you. It's about companies and corporations who need massive internet traffic to work... like for instance youtube, amazon or a news outlet. So yeah.
This basically means that ISPs who win the contract to service large companies who need massive amounts of internet traffic can be a lot more lucrative. Is this good? Is it bad? I don't know.