Telco Missteps, Overreach Leading to Dutch Net Neutrality Law
Ars Technica, May 29, 2011
By Nate Anderson
Big news out of the Netherlands, where a government minister announced plans to guarantee Network Neutrality by law. If Parliament approves the amendment to Dutch telecom law, and it expected to do so, it would become one of the first countries in the world to legislate against Internet providers who want to charge more for using particular applications or services. What led to the change? A classic case of overreaching.
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