Hi Will, all - On 13.11.2013 10:56, Will Hargrave wrote:
With increasing focus on liberalising the market for services in the EU, excluding British companies from competing on a level footing within the EU would be interesting.
that comes in addition. And I recall issues when the Commission got already highly excited about much smaller and less obvious competition violations...
(e.g. consider Vodafone's recent acquisition of Kabel Deutschland)
And now AT&T alledgedly has put an eye on VF: would this render KD inappropriate as a "national/Schengen EU Internet" carrier?
The prospect of countries 'pulling up the drawbridge' is concerning. Politicians are finally realising that it is not the US dominance of organisations like ICANN which matters to the Internet but the actual network itself. We can expect similar rhetoric in the future.
Unfortunately I can't disagree here. Best, -C.