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EU votes net neutrality into law, abolishes mobile roaming charges

2014-04-03 12:26:16| InfoWorld: Top News

Blocking and throttling Internet traffic will become illegal in the European Union following a parliamentary vote on Thursday. Members of the European Parliament voted to close loopholes in a proposed law that some believed would have created a two-tier Internet. The so-called Telecoms Package originally described "specialized services," which would have allowed Internet service providers to charge more for more data-intensive content services such as voice over IP and streaming video.

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