EU Telecom Regulator Says Net Neutrality Abuses Common; Pressure for Law Mounts

BRUSSELS—Pressure is mounting on the European Commission to propose legislation ensuring the principle of internet neutrality, following findings by the European Union’s telecom regulator that major operators are managing data traffic in ways that discriminate against companies using large bandwidth, including those providing telephone services.

The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications, or BEREC, which began its work in 2010, said in a March 9 statement that after trying for the first time to identify trends in data traffic management, preliminary findings show that blocking internet phone services—known as voice over internet protocol, or VoIP—as well as peer-to-peer traffic ...