Dear listers

Apologies for cross-posting.

In the last few days the world has been abuzz with Europe's new guidelines to Net Neutrality. For those of us who need a refresh:-

Net neutrality (also network neutrality, Internet neutrality, or net equality) is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet the same, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication. The term was coined by Columbia University Professor Tim Wu in 2003, as an extension of the longstanding concept of a common carrier.

Here's a link to Europe's guidelines on Net Neutrality.

http://berec.europa.eu/eng/document_register/subject_matter/berec/regulatory_best_practices/guidelines/6160-berec-guidelines-on-the-implementation-by-national-regulators-of-european-net-neutrality-rules


Time for Africa to come up with our own set of guidelines on Net Neutrality?


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On 30 Aug 2016, at 5:55 PM, Lucie Krahulcova <lucie@accessnow.org> wrote:

My apologies, here is the direct link to the guidelines:

http://berec.europa.eu/eng/document_register/subject_matter/berec/regulatory_best_practices/guidelines/6160-berec-guidelines-on-the-implementation-by-national-regulators-of-european-net-neutrality-rules


On 30 Aug 2016 16:47, "Carolina Rossini" <crossini@publicknowledge.org> wrote:
Hi Lucie, 

I am a bit lost in the website you've sent. Could you please circulate the link to the specific guidelines? \

Tks




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On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Lucie Krahulcova <lucie@accessnow.org> wrote:

Hello everyone,

Just wanted to send around a quick update that the EU net neutrality guidelines are out today, and they are great! We are in the room and the atmosphere is both exciting and tense -- not everyone is as happy as we are today.


To recap:

All of us at SavetheInternet.eu had several concerns about the TSM’s Net Neutrality provisions. When BEREC issued draft guidelines earlier this summer, it addressed several of our concerns, however, we urged BEREC to further clarify the text regarding specialised services, zero rating, and traffic management.

BEREC has now diligently addressed most of these issues. Regarding, zero rating programmes, the guidelines confirm that “sub-internet” offers, where only a part of the internet is offered for “free” are incompatible with the TSM and therefore banned. 

Unfortunately, there is some uncertainty regarding another type of zero rating whereby a telco prioritises either its own content or that of third parties. For such offers, BEREC has developed a set of criteria for a ‘case by case’ assessment that every offer will have to comply with. While the criteria are quite robust, national regulators will need sufficient resources and ensure strong enforcement in order to prevent Net Neutrality violations.


A massive thank you goes out to this list; many of you submitted to the consultation, shared information with your networks, and joined us in fighting the industry by signing the 5G GNN letter! This was all entirely essential to the guidelines we are seeing today.

I will be updating the map this week to reflect this -- Europe is turning blue!


Best from Brussels,

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