Verbatim report of proceedings

Tuesday, 27 October 2015 - Strasbourg

European single market for electronic communications (A8-0300/2015 - Pilar del Castillo Vera)

  Diane James (EFDD), in writing. – My MEP colleagues and I in UKIP voted against the EU Commission proposal to create an EU legislative framework on the European digital market as we believe our national representatives would do a much better job deciding whether to implement such legislation for the UK. We believe in the importance of maintaining the freedom we currently enjoy on the internet. We believe that all internet traffic should be treated equally, without discrimination, restriction or interference. For this reason, we object to the creation of new EU regulation on net neutrality and roaming. With regard to roaming, we believe that this proposal is deeply regressive, favouring well-heeled frequent travellers and disadvantaging typical users. Some telecom operators have in fact admitted that the loss in revenue will be pushed onto domestic users. Non-roaming customers will be subsidising frequently roaming customers and this will increase costs for the majority.