EU findings that ISPs there aren’t violating net...

EU findings that ISPs there aren’t violating net neutrality rules despite “fear mongering on behalf of net neutrality proponents” also have implications in the U.S., said Roslyn Layton, visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute’s Center for Internet, Communications and Technology Policy, in a blog post Tuesday. Layton cited a news release last week from the EU (http://bit.ly/1xlOBdc). EU investigators did a thorough search, raiding the offices of Deutsche Telekom, Orange and Telefonica in July “during an unannounced investigation of the Internet and mobile service providers’ traffic management practices,” she said. “The EU Commission should be recognized for conducting a proper investigation of traffic management practices as part of its net neutrality rulemaking,” she wrote (http://bit.ly/1nYwfyZ). “When the evidence does not exist to support the proposed regulation, then the regulation should not be implemented. It’s a lesson just as important for the EU as it is for the US."