Dear Commissioner Vestager,Dear Commissioner Breton, The undersigned experts write to express our concern and to urge the Commission to abandon its plans to require content providers to pay telecommunication providers an “infrastructure fee”, often referred to as the “Sending-Party-Network- Pays” model. Such fees violate the net neutrality rules enshrined in the 2015 Open Internet Regulation […]
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Official outcome of the UN IGF Coalitions on Net Neutrality and on Community Connectivity This volume explores “The Value of Internet Openness in Times of Crisis” and is the official outcome of the Coalitions on Net Neutrality and on Community Connectivity of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum. This work stems from the consideration that […]
The current pandemic has demonstrated that non-discriminatory Internet access is both valuable and essential. DCNN members have been exploring this internet openness, since the inception of the Coalition, providing an open platform for stakeholders to discuss shared principles, norms, rules, decision-making procedures, and programmes that shape the evolution and use of the Open Internet. A […]
Annual Report of the UN IGF Dynamic Coalition on Net Neutrality This Report is the 2016 outcome of the IGF Dynamic Coalition on Network Neutrality (DCNN). The Report gathers a series of case studies on a variety of net neutrality issues from the perspective of different stakeholders. The double purpose of this report is to […]
One year after its inception, the Dynamic Coalition on Network Neutrality (DC NN) renews its commitment towards the enrichment of the Internet policy debate, by publishing its second annual report. The publication of the first DC NN report played an inspiring role for policy makers, particularly at the European level. In fact, the work of […]
The ways in which Internet traffic is managed have direct consequences on Internet users’ rights as well as on their capability to compete on a level playing field. Network neutrality mandates to treat Internet traffic in a non-discriminatory fashion in order to maximise end users’ freedom and safeguard an open Internet. This book is the […]
Furthering internet users’ interests, modernising Human Rights and safeguarding the open Internet Providing guidance to member states and/or to facilitating the elaboration of guidelines with and for private sector actors in order to define more precisely acceptable management measures and minimum quality-of-service requirements CM Declaration on Network Neutrality of 2010 Luca Belli & Matthijs van […]
The report explores some of the most crucial facets of Network Neutrality, underscoring its close relationship with the full enjoyment of end-users fundamental rights. The report also includes a proposal for a Model Framework on Network Neutrality that has been elaborated by the Dynamic Coalition through an open, inclusive and multi-stakeholder effort, in order to […]