A group of major internet companies, including Ebay, Yahoo and Skype, have written to Ed Vaizey, communications minister, urging the British government not to impose regulation that would allow the country’s internet service providers to favour traffic from one content provider over another.They cautioned the government not to manage data traffic by allowing operators to discriminate against certain content providers, such as video-streaming websites, by permitting them to charge for “fast lane” access.To read this report in The Financial Times in full, see:
www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6fd0bf90-fe30-11df-abac-00144feab49a.htmlAlso see:Virgin Media boss restates opposition to net neutrality
The head of Virgin Media, the UK’s third biggest ISP, has reiterated his opposition to net neutrality, saying that making ISPs treat all network traffic equally would be “wrong”.The intervention comes in the week that e-commerce companies, pressure groups and journalists wrote to the Government encouraging it to back five principles that would underpin net neutrality.
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Internet companies in UK oppose net neutrality
A group of major internet companies, including Ebay, Yahoo and Skype, have written to Ed Vaizey, communications minister, urging the British government not to impose regulation that would allow the country’s internet service providers to favour traffic from one content provider over another.