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Re:EU votes net neutrality into law, abolishes mobile roamin... by DougWebb on Thursday April 03, 2014 @10:30AM (#7523038)
Being pessimistic... as the European Telecoms becomes "truly European", the carriers will probably start merging. Eventually you'll wind up where we are in the US, with a couple of huge carriers, a moderately sized carrier, and some small carriers that barely count. And then they'll start colluding, and providing poor service because they don't have to compete anymore.

Welcome to the club.

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Re:EU votes net neutrality into law, abolishes mobile roamin... by lmm on Thursday April 03, 2014 @11:00AM (#7523286)
The EU can and will act to block mergers it considers to be anticompetitive.
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Re:EU votes net neutrality into law, abolishes mobile roamin... by silon5 on Thursday April 03, 2014 @10:48AM (#7523167)
It's about time to progressively tax (VAT, not profit) companies in "monopoly" markets.
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Re:EU votes net neutrality into law, abolishes mobile roamin... by fosap on Thursday April 03, 2014 @02:33PM (#7524999)
In germany companies in monopoly markets (e.g. power transmission) have a fixed profit margin (I think 10%).
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