A call for Net neutrality debate in U.K.

A CALL FOR NET NEUTRALITY IN UK
[SOURCE: C-Net|News.com, AUTHOR: David Meyer]
The time has come for the United Kingdom to join the growing debate surrounding Net neutrality, the president of the British Computer Society said. Professor Nigel Shadbolt said late last week that, because so much of the Internet's content is derived from the U.S., the U.K. and Europe would be affected by any Net neutrality-related decisions made across the Atlantic. Because Internet users in the U.S. tend to have a smaller range of ISPs to choose from than do users in the U.K., the consensus in the U.K. has been that Net neutrality is a U.S.-centric debate. The U.K. government and the U.K.'s regulator, the Office of Communications, have both argued that, with a competitive U.K. ISP market to ensure choice and existing European Union legislation to protect the customer, U.K. businesses and consumers have nothing to worry about. However, Shadbolt argues that the time has arrived for the U.K. and Europe to stop sitting on the fence.
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