EU Commission’s efforts towards a digital single market for the EU’s 28 countries continues. Former Commissioner Neelie Kroes suggested including the abolition of roaming charges within the EU, work that her successor, Andrus Ansip has now taken over. But just like his predecessor, he has found it difficult to gain support for their demands among EU ministers.
Earlier today when he presented the focus areas for joint digital market as the Commission discussed until there was not just roaming with.
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Andrus Ansip seems instead focus on another annoyance for European consumers. The focus was namely what is called geoblocking, that is, for example, you can not watch Netflix in Spain even though you have a subscription to the service in Sweden, or that some material on Youtube is not available in all countries in the Union.
– I hate geoblocking from the bottom of my heart, there’s nothing that belongs in our a century, said Andrus Ansip, when he met with reporters this afternoon.
Andrus Ansip mean that Europeans are prepared to pay for films and other material online, but they often can not because the material is not available in their home country . He believes that it is a win for both consumers and those who create films or other materials if more people can access the shop.
Andrus Ansip.
– People are ready to pay, but we do not accept their money, says Andrus Ansip.
Geoblocking, according to he just be acceptable in exceptional circumstances, if any material, for example, would be illegal in a single country.
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– 271 million Europeans travel each year across national boundaries and they want access to the content they purchased legally, says Andrus Ansip.
But how the question with such licenses should be solved, he has no answer to today. On the whole, want Andrus Ansip wait responses until May 6 when the discussions between the Commissioners on the strategy to get into a single digital market must be completed.
During the press conference, Andrus Ansip also asked about their attitude when it comes to net neutrality. Here too he gave clear answers, more than that he did not see that there are some major differences between European network neutrality and the rules on net neutrality FCC recently presented. That is, it should not be allowed to block or throttle the access to certain services.
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