About the "network neutrality" principle, operator dissatisfaction is what

local time in Monday, the European Union held a technical seminar in western extraction, where telecoms giants Vodafone and Telefónica: The EU should set new rules for "net neutrality" to reduce restrictions on operators and focus more on internet giants such as Google and Facebook. Vodafone and Telefónica say it is clear that today, the internet giants such as Google are the culprits for undermining network neutrality and creating a network monopoly.

What is network neutrality? Network neutrality means that all Internet users can access the content of the Web site, run applications, access devices, and select Network service providers in accordance with the law. The purpose of this principle is to require all Internet content and access to be treated equally, to prevent operators from controlling the priority of transmission data from commercial interests, and to ensure the neutrality of network data transmission.

The internet company, represented by Google, has been a staunch believer in the principle of net neutrality. They believe that telecommunications operations often from their own interests, the transmission of data priorities, resulting in slow speed of some Web sites, and even the site's links are completely blocked, thereby undermining the commercial interests of internet companies. In May this year, more than 100 internet companies, including Google, wrote to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) urging the FCC to prevent telecoms operators from developing discriminatory business policies in their hand-flow operations.

Operators have long objected to the use of net neutrality in the bill, saying they will not block which sites or services, but will retain the right to "fast track" fees. It can be said that the network neutrality of the operator has been rejected. Today, the operator's discontent is escalating again. At the conference, many operators believed that internet companies such as Google and Facebook had formed market monopolies, which gave them the right to control user use and development applications. "The net neutrality is invented by companies that don't want to be neutral," said Cesar Alieta, chief executive of Telefónica, at the symposium. We ask that the EU be able to regulate the telecommunications and Internet markets as a whole, and that the market as a whole will have a fair competitive environment, not just the telecoms operators. ”

To see where the operators ' grievances come from:

1. One-sided interpretation of market share

Alieta of Telefónica is quite dissatisfied with Google. He angrily said: "The EU always stare at our market share, said we in some countries (in fact, small countries like Ireland) more than 40% of the share, but they do not look, some companies accounted for more than 90% of the search engine market share." A Google spokeswoman declined to respond.

2, network neutrality will affect the quality of Internet service

Vodafone's CEO, Vittorio Colao, says fair treatment of all Internet traffic is not necessarily a good thing. Differentiated services mean that users who are willing to pay for a better service experience will be able to get what they want. Second, it is also important to optimize the use of network traffic, especially for mobile internet services. Mobile network traffic is relatively limited, some of the traffic requirements of higher services will not be guaranteed quality, such as streaming media video services.

3, network neutrality may also make new services can not be promoted, landing

For some of the new online services and applications, their service providers are willing to spend money from operators to obtain a higher priority traffic rights to fight those in the Internet world are already very mature competitors, why not give them the opportunity? In addition, some of the emerging services may not be used at all, at least it is not reassuring to use. For example, a service like Google's driverless car needs to be supported by big broadband, no delay in Web services, and imagine how scary it would be if you were driving an unmanned car and suddenly the network was interrupted by congestion.

4, network neutrality has affected the operator's merger and acquisition and market expansion

In competitive markets such as the US and European markets, operators are bristling, which is not good for operators. Large operators such as Vodafone tend to opt for small operators in other countries to reduce the threshold and scale up quickly. But at the same time, based on the principle of network neutrality, some countries are more stringent requirements for operators, such as the cancellation of roaming fees, the adoption of more consistent auction standards, the network traffic to all service providers. This will dampen operators ' enthusiasm for market expansion.

In fact, the operator of the network neutrality of the principle of dissatisfaction is not only in Europe and the United States, the Chinese market is also not? Earlier this year, China Mobile also publicly accused of micro-letter, the accusation is that the micro-letter excessive occupation of signaling channel and lead to operators of the normal call business quality is affected, in the operator set up the data network channel on the High-profile operators of the message and call business and damage the original interests of operators. The institutional differences between operators and Internet companies also determine that the contradictions between the two are difficult to avoid.

For complaints from operators, EU officials said: "Network neutrality legislation is unavoidable, the aim is to establish a set of rules that will help the entire European telecommunications market to achieve maximum benefits in the industry, rather than blindly attacking operators." I wonder if operators would agree with him.