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The Dutch senate has made network neutrality and access to services such as Viber and Skype compulsory, becoming only the second country to do so after Chile. This may have repercussions in other countries, such as the U.S., where Verizon is currently being vilified for its efforts to resist net neutrality for its own commercial advantage. In the Netherlands, the net neutrality legislation itself arose out of incumbent Telco KPN’s attempt in 2011 to charge customers extra for using Voice over IP and third party messaging services over its network, in response to declining voice and SMS service revenues. This also attracted widespread condemnation, and led to the Dutch government introducing legislation to outlaw such behavior. By Philip Hunter Read more: http://broadcastengineering.com/news/dutch-net-neutrality-mandatory/#ixzz20KQFTrGw