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      Here it is:<br>
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            bold;text-decoration: underline;">Telecoms firms brace for
            EU 'net neutrality' vote to limit service fees</a><br>
          <em>Reuters, Foo Yun Chee, 31 March 2014 </em></span></span><br>
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      Regards,<br>
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      B.<br>
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      Dne 1.4.2014 13:12, piše Carlos Vera Quintana:<br>
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      <div>Thank you <br>
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        Carlos Vera Quintana
        <div>0988141143</div>
        <div>Sígueme @cveraq</div>
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        El 01/04/2014, a las 6:21, Borka Jerman Blazic <<a
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            Hi,<br>
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            You are certainly right in general, however there was
            published yesterday an opinion that slightly differ<br>
            (the Commission spokesman claims that the proposal guarantee
            no packet discrimination<br>
            and net neutrality).    I am enclosing it!<br>
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            Regards,<br>
            <br>
            Borka<br>
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            Dne 1.4.2014 11:51, piše Halbersztadt Jozef (jothal):<br>
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              <div>Colleagues,
                <p lang="en-US"><br>
                </p>
                <p lang="en-US"><font>In two days the European
                    Parliament will finally vote on the proposal for a
                    Telecoms Single Market. This proposal was initially
                    designed to deliver the promise of enshrining Net
                    Neutrality as law across Europe. Yet unless the
                    European Parliament rises to the challenge, it they
                    may actually end up undermining net neutrality net
                    through unclear and confusing legislation.</font></p>
                <p lang="en-US"><br>
                </p>
                <p lang="en-US"><font>In fact the prime objective behind
                    the Telecoms proposal, is not to ensure Net
                    Neutrality, but promote so-called “specialised
                    services”. This definition of “specialised services”
                    put forward by the European Commission has been
                    criticized for undermining core principles of
                    nondiscrimination online. Its aims to create a
                    “special lane for high consuming services”, such as
                    video or social media services which are available
                    today free of charge.</font></p>
                <p lang="en-US"><br>
                </p>
                <p lang="en-US"><font>Under this definition of
                    “specialised services,” telecommunications companies
                    will be positioned to become internet gatekeepers,
                    controlling innovation, strangling competition, and
                    ultimately restricting freedom of expression online.</font></p>
                <p lang="en-US"><br>
                </p>
                <p lang="en-US"><font>Furthermore, the regulation was
                    presented by the Commission to the European
                    Parliament only in September 2013, forcing the
                    parliamentarians to adopt a ridiculously tight
                    timeline to debate and vote before the upcoming
                    elections in May 2014.</font></p>
                <p lang="en-US"><br>
                </p>
                <p lang="en-US"><font>During this process, the European
                    Commission ignored internal criticism regarding the
                    harmful impacts the current Telecoms proposal will
                    have on entrepreneurs and the fundamental rights of
                    European citizens. The European Commission also
                    ignored serious concerns raised by the Body of
                    European Regulators for Electronic Communications
                    (BEREC). This European agency in charge of promoting
                    an efficient telecoms market that maximizes benefits
                    for consumers and businesses alike, clearly
                    identified the provisions included in the Telecoms
                    proposal as being “counterproductive” to that end.</font></p>
                <p lang="en-US"><br>
                </p>
                <p lang="en-US"><font>Despite the tight timeline, almost
                    all parliamentary committees involved in the
                    Telecoms proposal managed to add necessary
                    improvements to the text and adopt provisions
                    safeguarding against network discrimination.
                    Regrettably, the Industry, Research and Energy
                    (ITRE) Committee, in charge of the Telecoms proposal
                    in the Parliament, rejected many of the improvements
                    suggested by other committees in the final version
                    of the proposal adopted prior to submission to the
                    European Parliament's. When push came to shove, the
                    ITRE Committee followed the Christian Democrat (EPP)
                    rapporteur Pilar del Castillo questionable defense
                    of the European Commission objectives at the expense
                    of Net Neutrality. </font> </p>
                <p lang="en-US"><br>
                </p>
                <p lang="en-US"><font>Despite these setbacks, the
                    European Parliament has an opportunity to prevent
                    anti-competitive, anti-innovation policies by
                    enshrining net neutrality into law across Europe in
                    the Telecoms proposal’s final vote on April 3 by
                    adopting the positive compromise amendments tabled
                    by the Social-Democrats (S&D), the Greens
                    (Greens/EFA), the United Left (GUE/NGL) and the
                    Liberals (ALDE). The Parliament has a chance to stop
                    network discrimination in its tracks by enshrining
                    net neutrality into EU level law, as was already
                    done in two EU countries, the Netherlands and
                    Slovenia..</font></p>
                <p lang="en-US"><br>
                </p>
                <p lang="en-US"><font>Citizens across the European Union
                    can contact their representatives and urge them to
                    vote for the alternative amendments and prevent the
                    Internet to look more like cable TV, where your
                    operator has total control over what you can access
                    online, even charging you extra for certain
                    services. A group of NGOs designed and launched a
                    platform making to everyone very easy to call, email
                    or fax members of the European Parliament.</font></p>
                <p lang="en-US"><font><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="http://savetheinternet.eu/en/">http://savetheinternet.eu/en/</a></font></p>
                <p lang="en-US"><br>
                </p>
                <p lang="en-US"><font>In this action the citizen are
                    informed that adopting of alternative provisions is
                    the way to effectively enact Net Neutrality and
                    ensure non-discrimination in the digital economy.
                    While telecom companies (in particular those
                    represented by the European Telecommunications
                    Network Operators' Association (ETNO)) have been
                    circulating misleading information about these
                    amendments, they will in fact safeguard the ability
                    of telecom operators to launch innovative
                    “specialised services”, guarantee that innovative
                    small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can benefit from
                    a level playing-field, but also protect citizens'
                    freedom of communication and consumers' freedom of
                    choice. </font> </p>
                <p lang="en-US"><br>
                </p>
                <p lang="en-US"><font>More here:</font></p>
                <p lang="en-US"><font><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en/net-neutrality-vote-in-eu-parliament-meps-must-protect-the-internet">http://www.laquadrature.net/en/net-neutrality-vote-in-eu-parliament-meps-must-protect-the-internet</a></font></p>
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              Regards<br clear="all">
              <div>Jozef Halbersztadt<br>
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