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[Bowdon]

EU Telecoms Regulators Publish Final Net Neutrality Guidelines

A key group representing telecoms regulators from across the EU (e.g. Ofcom in the United Kingdom) has published their final Net Neutrality Guidelines, which are designed to govern how broadband ISPs and mobile operators will be expected to maintain open Internet access.

The EU introduced new regulation to protect the open Internet from abuse in 2015, which essentially means that broadband ISPs and mobile operators cannot impose excessive restrictions against Internet traffic (e.g. no blocking or slowing access to legal websites or Internet services).

[Weaver]

Does paragraph 53 of the guidelines mean that the BTW and AAISP traffic priority options which I pay for will be illegal?   

God the lawyers, paper-shufflers, and RevK are going to go mad.

It's a good thing, the EU net neutrality thing as long as it doesn't end up causing silly mistakes in wording to accidentally ban good and useful things. Basically the consumer should be the king. There are lots of examples of really bad wording and even contradictions in the regulations, like where it talks about the miracle of data compression that doesn't affect the content. (They mean “decompressed content”.) In places it even sounds like they might be prohibiting ISPs’ spam filters and ISP-side user-remote-controlled firewalls. (Would love the latter.)