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A group of 20 major mobile network companies operating throughout Europe, including BT, Vodafone and Deuthsche Telekom have put forward a ‘5G manifesto', outlining the group's ability to bring faster 5G mobile networks to all countries within the European Union by 2020. However, there is a significant catch- net neutrality laws and regulation would need to be weakened before any investment is made.
The document itself (PDF) spans over seven pages and details how the companies will roll out 5G leading up to 2020. However, to do this, the companies involved are also calling for the “right regulatory environment”, which essentially means killing off open internet policies.
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The manifesto reads: “The EU must reconcile the need for open Internet with pragmatic rules that foster innovation. The telecom industry warns that current net neutrality guidelines, as put forward by the Body of European Regulators, create significant uncertainties around 5G return on investment. Investments are therefore likely to be delayed unless regulators take a positive stance on innovation and stick to it.”
As The Verge points out, the EU has already rejected legislation to protect net neutrality in Europe, leaving loopholes in the system for ‘specialised services' to access internet fast lanes.
KitGuru Says: Net neutrality is an important step in keeping the internet fair, open and free from manipulation by ISPs and network providers. However, given the lack of protection offered through legislation in the EU last year, there is some cause for concern here but it could be a while before we hear more. What do you guys think about this? Should the EU be upholding net neutrality? Or should appeasing networks take priority for the sake of service upgrades?
Keep with the net neutrality, regarless of what threats the commercial enterprices may come up with, ofc.
Empty threats as always 5G networks will be there so or so in 2020
don’t hold your breath waiting … It may harm your health
“We’ve all agreed to endanger our business in order to get what we want…” Lol, all it takes is one of those companies to screw over the others by offering a better service first and snatching up the customers desperate for the speed increase. Shareholders will push them to it eventually, this is just a massive bluff.
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We haven’t even gotten 4G in most places yet and we’re worrying about 5G? Uhm.. ok. My phone is 4G capable but my sim is an older one and is only 3G, but even 3G is plenty fast enough for me.
Don’t see why my sim card should effect how the phone works though.