By Foo Yun Chee and Julia Fioretti
Brussels (Reuters) – The European Union reached a preliminary Tuesday to eliminate roaming charges or roaming on mobile connections across the bloc of 28 countries in June 2017 agreement and to demand telecommunications operators, such as Deutsche Telekom and Orange, dealing with fair way all traffic on the Internet.
The draft agreement is an important step plan to reform EU telecom market on the continent, with which aims to boost growth and catch up with the development in the US and Asia.
“Under the agreement, roaming surcharges on European Union are abolished on June 15, 2017 “Latvia, which holds the rotating EU presidency, said in a statement after 12 hours of talks with EU lawmakers said.
As for the controversial issue of net neutrality, the EU plans to order telecommunications operators treat all Internet traffic equally and that the locks are only allow to counter cyber during peak periods or attacks.
Companies such as Deutsche Telekom, Orange and Telecom Italia had pushed for more freedom of action in order to tap into a potentially lucrative source of income, but internet activists say this could create a two-speed Internet that benefits companies with lots of money.
draft agreement must be ratified by the member states of the EU in the next six months, when Luxembourg takes over the EU presidency on July 1.
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