Router Freedom has been successfully implemented in Germany since 2016. Now new challenges arise on the EU level. In general terms, Router Freedom is the right that every one has to choose a router/modem to access to the internet. Based on the lessons learnt in previous years, the FSFE is preparing an activity package for organisations and activists to assist them in their fight for Router Freedom in their own countries, as well as on the EU level. Spe

1. Router Freedom is moving on!
16 November 2019 – SFScon – Bolzen
Lucas Lasota | Legal Team
lucas.lasota@fsfe.org

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What is it all about?
1. Why Router Freedom is important?
2. Router Freedom’s panorama in Europe
3. What you can do to fight for Router Freedom
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What is it all about?
1. Why Router Freedom is important?
2. Router Freedom’s panorama in Europe
3. What you can do to advocate for Router Freedom
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Why Router Freedom is important?
Users profit from the free
competition that guarantees
free choice and steady
improvement of products, as
well their sustainability.
Free Competition &
Compatibility
We have the right to choose
our own electronic devices.
Freedom of choice
With few models large number
of users is affected.Slow
delivery of updates and
restriction to device’s software.
Security
The lack of Router Freedom
compromises our privacy and
the security of our most
sensitive personal data.
Privacy & Data
Protection

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What is it all about?
1. Why Router Freedom is important?
2. Router Freedom’s panorama in Europe
3. FSFE and digital freedom
FSFE work in the legal field
FSFE’s campaings
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Router Freedom’s panorama in Europe
. Users have the right to use the terminal of their
choice.
. NRA should monitor Net Neutrality.
Net Neutrality Directive
European Electronic Communications Code
BEREC Guidelines
. NRA defines the NTPs but BEREC provides the
guidelines.
. Definitions need to be adjusted to ensure Net
Neutrality.
. Three criteria to define NTP:
Legal definition
Impact on Market
Tech. necessity
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Router Freedom’s panorama in Europe
BEREC
Public consultation
Until 29.11 [1]
[1]
https://berec.europa.eu/eng/news_consultations/ongoing_publ
ic_consultations/5912-public-consultation-on-draft-berec-guid
elines-on-common-approaches-to-the-identification-of-the-net
work-termination-point-in-different-network-topologies

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What is it all about?
1. Why Router Freedom is important?
2. Router Freedom’s panorama in Europe
3. What you can do to fight for Router Freedom
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What you can do to fight for Router Freedom
Challenges
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Internalization of the Net
Neutrality norms
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NTP’s definition by the NRAs
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Router Freedom monitoring
by the NRAs
BEREC
Public consultation
until 29.11

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What you can do to fight for Router Freedom
wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/CompulsoryRouters/

11. Lucas Lasota | lucas.lasotal@fsfe.org
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