<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Dear listers</div><div><br></div><div>Apologies for cross-posting.</div><div><br></div><div>In the last few days the world has been abuzz with Europe's new guidelines to Net Neutrality. For those of us who need a refresh:-</div><div><br></div><div><span class="st" data-hveid="37" style="line-height: 20px; word-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Net neutrality (also network neutrality, Internet neutrality, or net equality) is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet the same, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">of communication. The term was coined by Columbia University Professor Tim Wu in 2003, as an extension of the longstanding concept of a common carrier.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Here's a link to Europe's guidelines on Net Neutrality.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><p dir="ltr"><a href="http://berec.europa.eu/eng/document_register/subject_matter/berec/regulatory_best_practices/guidelines/6160-berec-guidelines-on-the-implementation-by-national-regulators-of-european-net-neutrality-rules" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://berec.europa.eu/eng/document_register/subject_matter/berec/regulatory_best_practices/guidelines/6160-berec-guidelines-on-the-implementation-by-national-regulators-of-european-net-neutrality-rules</font></a></p></blockquote><br></div><div>Time for Africa to come up with our own set of guidelines on Net Neutrality?</div><div><span class="st" data-hveid="37" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 20px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Roboto-Regular, HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><br><div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Principal</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">+254 0713 601113 </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font></font></span><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span></p><font><br></font></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div><div>"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi</div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div></div><div><br>On 30 Aug 2016, at 5:55 PM, Lucie Krahulcova <<a href="mailto:lucie@accessnow.org">lucie@accessnow.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><p dir="ltr">My apologies, here is the direct link to the guidelines: </p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="http://berec.europa.eu/eng/document_register/subject_matter/berec/regulatory_best_practices/guidelines/6160-berec-guidelines-on-the-implementation-by-national-regulators-of-european-net-neutrality-rules">http://berec.europa.eu/eng/document_register/subject_matter/berec/regulatory_best_practices/guidelines/6160-berec-guidelines-on-the-implementation-by-national-regulators-of-european-net-neutrality-rules</a></p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 Aug 2016 16:47, "Carolina Rossini" <<a href="mailto:crossini@publicknowledge.org">crossini@publicknowledge.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Lucie, <div><br></div><div>I am a bit lost in the website you've sent. Could you please circulate the link to the specific guidelines? \</div><div><br></div><div>Tks</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-size:small"><table style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:Times"><tbody><tr><td><br><br><br></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:top"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="3" style="width:45pt;height:45pt;table-layout:fixed;color:rgb(197,194,197)"><tbody><tr style="line-height:0.5em"><td style="text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px;background-color:rgb(197,194,197)">#</td><td style="text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px;background-color:rgb(197,194,197)">#</td><td style="text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px;background-color:rgb(197,194,197)">#</td></tr><tr style="line-height:0.5em"><td style="text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px;background-color:rgb(197,194,197)">#</td><td style="color:rgb(223,52,28);text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px;border-radius:50%;background-color:rgb(223,52,28)">•</td><td style="text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px;background-color:rgb(197,194,197)">#</td></tr><tr style="line-height:0.5em"><td style="text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px;background-color:rgb(197,194,197)">#</td><td style="text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px;background-color:rgb(197,194,197)">#</td><td style="text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px;background-color:rgb(197,194,197)">#</td></tr></tbody></table></td><td style="vertical-align:top;padding-left:16px"><div style="font-family:sans-serif;margin-bottom:1em"><div><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1">Carolina Rossini </font></b><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Vice President, International Policy and Strategy</span><br></div><div><a value="+16176979389" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small;color:rgb(102,102,102)">+ 1 (617) 697 9389 | </a><font color="#666666" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">skype: carolrossini | </font><font color="#0000ff" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">@carolinarossini </font></div><div><font color="#666666"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">PGP ID: 0xEC81015C</span></font></div></div><div><b style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"><font color="#ff0000">Public Knowledge</font></b><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/publicknowledge" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small;color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">@publicknowledge</a><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"> |<wbr> </span><a href="http://www.publicknowledge.org/" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small;color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">www.publicknowledge.org</a><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"> </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1">1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 </font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1"><br></font></div><div><div style="margin-bottom:1em"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1"><b>Save the Date! The IP3 Awards - <span><span>September 22nd</span></span>!</b></font><div><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/13th-annual-ip3-awards-tickets-26519524612" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/<wbr>13th-annual-ip3-awards-<wbr>tickets-26519524612</font></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><br><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"> </span><br><br><font color="#0000ff" face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1"><br></font><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.6667px"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Lucie Krahulcova <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lucie@accessnow.org" target="_blank">lucie@accessnow.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>Hello everyone,<div><br><div>Just wanted to send around a quick update that the EU net neutrality guidelines are out today, and they are great! We are in the room and the atmosphere is both exciting and tense -- not everyone is as happy as we are today.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://berec.europa.eu/eng/document_register" target="_blank">http://berec.europa.eu/eng/doc<wbr>ument_register</a><br></div><div><br><b>To recap:</b></div><div><br>All of us at <a href="http://savetheinternet.eu">SavetheInternet.eu</a> had several concerns about the TSM’s Net Neutrality provisions. When BEREC issued draft guidelines earlier this summer, it addressed several of our concerns, however, we urged BEREC to further clarify the text regarding specialised services, zero rating, and traffic management.<br><br>BEREC has now diligently addressed most of these issues. Regarding, zero rating programmes, the guidelines confirm that “sub-internet” offers, where only a part of the internet is offered for “free” are incompatible with the TSM and therefore banned. </div><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately, there is some uncertainty regarding another type of zero rating whereby a telco prioritises either its own content or that of third parties. For such offers, BEREC has developed a set of criteria for a ‘case by case’ assessment that every offer will have to comply with. While the criteria are quite robust, national regulators will need sufficient resources and ensure strong enforcement in order to prevent Net Neutrality violations.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>A massive thank you goes out to this list;</b> many of you submitted to the consultation, shared information with your networks, and joined us in fighting the industry by signing the 5G GNN letter! This was all entirely essential to the guidelines we are seeing today.</div><div><br></div><div><div>I will be updating the map this week to reflect this -- <b>Europe is turning blue!</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>Best from Brussels,</div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><b>Lucie Krahulcova</b><br>Policy Associate<br>Access Now | <a href="http://accessnow.org" target="_blank">accessnow.org</a><br><br>PGP ID: 0x3AC47779<br>Fingerprint: ADC0 DA6B 8FDE C90C DB41 0372 5416 4DF6 3AC4 7779</span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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