Action taken by different

countries on net
neutrality

4 countries that have adopted net neutrality law

1.Chile:Chile was the first country to adopt net neutrality. The provisions advocating
net neutrality were integrated in General Telecommunications Law on January 13,
2010.

2. Netherlands:Netherlands became the first European country and second after Chile
to have a net neutrality law. The law, passed in 2012, bans telecom operators to charge
extra for select services or block select services.

3. Brazil:Brazil joined the net neutrality bandwagon in 2014, barring operators from
charging differently for services and providing different bandwidths to select services.

4.United States of America: The latest entrant in the list is the USA. A result of the
public outcry over the oligopoly of Verizon and Comcast and their misuse of dominance
in the telecom market.

How other countries are addressing net neutrality

Toolsets/lessons for each approach

Norway

UK

Netherlands

US

Measurement

Self-declared
with
verification?

Ofcom:
SamKnows

Consumers e.g.
Glasnost/Neubot
/ BitsofFreedom

FCC: SamKnows

Technical
advice

Within coregulatory pact

Broadband
Stakeholder
Group coregulation

NRA advising
ministry

BITAG and OIAC

self/coregulation

Legal position

Co-regulation

Not
implemented
2009/136/EU

Implemented
2009/136/EU

Order December
2010, published
Sept.2011

Efficiency

Very fast first

mover

Very slow
industry foot
dragging

Very fast
legislative panic

Very slow note

court delay

Lesson

Act fast, get

stakeholder buyin

Death by a 1000
cuts; denydelay-degrade;
significant
political damage

Mobile DPI and

blocking
prompted action
legislative
panic

Lack of
bipartisanship
causes trench
warfare