Legislation designed to protect net neutrality and abolish mobile phone roaming fees has been passed today by the European Parliament. These new rules — hotly debated for two years by EU representatives — are now finalised and will soon cover the entire region, including the UK. While the end of expensive holiday phone bills won’t take place until 2017, the updated internet protections should come into effect fairly quickly. Such a moment ought to be cause for celebration, however many in the technology industry are now concerned about loopholes that could enable internet “fast lanes.”
Source: EU passes net neutrality laws that leave ‘fast lane’ loopholes