EQUALITY: Andrus Ansip, vice president for the Digital Single Market in the European Commission wants the same Internet speed for all companies in the EU.
BRUSSELS: The European Union's new digital tsar voiced alarm at the efforts of some EU governments to water down equal Internet access, just as EU plans for "net neutrality" were being echoed in the United States by Barack Obama.
Andrus Ansip, the former Estonian prime minister who this month became vice president for the Digital Single Market in the European Commission, told Reuters he was "really worried" by new proposals from states to let Internet service providers offer, to some degree, different data speeds to different customers.
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