Telecom incumbents praise EU plans, slam US regulator

"We must put innovation and investment as our focus” even though “we don't all agree on how,” Chairman Steven Tas of European telecom industry lobby ETNO told an industry workshop in Washington on 28 April. Industry seemed pretty mad with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for deciding, on 26 February, to regulate the internet as a utility for the first time. As the EU finalises its rules on net neutrality and rolls out a new strategy to foster more…