Resumen
Readers of this magazine will be familiar with the network neutrality debate currently occurring in the US. Many readers might have wondered whether the European Union has also been engulfed in the debate. The answer is yes, but as is often the case the EU and the US are starting from different situations and working within different policy frameworks. "Network neutrality" has become a slogan of sorts, which covers a more complex reality than either side of the US debate is willing to admit. In the EU as in the US, ISPs have two main reasons for desiring differentiated quality of service (QoS). In the end, even if the introduction of differentiated QoS entails some risks in addition to the benefits it could bring, it is too early to tell, and at this moment the case against differentiated QoS is not solid enough to warrant specific legislative intervention to impose network neutrality in the EU.