Holland leading the world - Net Neutrality

erolz


Joined: 17/11/2008
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Message Posted:
23/06/2011 16:53

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13886440



The issue of Net Neutrality is at the core of how the internet will grow and develop in the future. What has made the internet the phenomeom that it is today, is that it transfered control of physical networks away from those who owned the physical wires to those who use them (from telephone companies to us), from the center to the edges. Ever since those that owned the wires have been trying to claw back that control that they had pre the internet and the current battle field in this ongoing war is the issue of net neutrality. Well done to Holland. The battle continues.

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
23/06/2011 17:14

@ msg 1, erolz: Aquote from this BBC article (Netherlands makes net neutrality a law): "The European Commission has adopted a "wait and see" approach with Neelie Kroes, Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, stating in April that Brussels would spend 2011 "closely looking at current market practices".

Ms Kroes promised to present the findings and publicly name "operators engaging in doubtful practices" at the end of 2011."



▶ Too bad the (correct) BBC article failed to mention that Mrs Neelie Kroes is Dutch also and doing an excellent, harsh telecommunications job in Europe. She's from the tiny Kingdom of the Netherlands, where people are bosses of their own life and death - and bosses about most essentials in life.

erolz


Joined: 17/11/2008
Posts: 3456

Message Posted:
23/06/2011 17:35

The Netherlands has a long (in internet access terms) history of talking a long term progressive view of networks in a digital age and their use and role in society vs the narrow commerical interests of what I refer to as 'wire owners'. Municipal Broadband, another one of the key battlefronts, between the interests of society at large and the narrow commerical benefit of 'wire owners', is another area where Holland has an enviable track record cmpared to most other EU countires. In the US, vested interests of the 'wire owners' recently scored a significant sucsess against 'municipal broadband' there. Hopefully Holland, and some other progressive EU countries like Finland I should add, can continue to influence the rest of the EU so we do not go down these routes that countires like the US is heading down.

newscoop


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Message Posted:
23/06/2011 21:36

You've got to love the country that gave the world











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