The governing party of President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, scrambling to save a national law that would cut off Internet service to those who make repeated illegal downloads, is threatening to block a European Union telecommunications bill that would undermine the legal foundation of the French plan.The E.U. bill would create a new telecommunication regulator in Europe, enable regulators to separate dominant phone companies from their networks, and increase coordination of broadcast frequencies within Europe.To read this report from The New York Times in full, see:
nytimes.com/2009/04/21/technology/internet/21net.htmlEU states, lawmakers on Internet collision course
European Union states headed for a collision course with the bloc’s parliament on Tuesday as a spat over how to tackle illegal downloads threatened a wider telecom reform.There is broad agreement over the reform package, authored by EU Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding, but a last-minute standoff between member countries and parliament has put back final adoption to May at the earliest.
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