A recognition of the right to access the internet seems to be gathering momentum in European countries, with the European Parliament announcing it will give consumers more rights.
Specifically, they would get new rights to switch cell phone or fixed line operators within one working day and to challenge disconnections, even if they are illegally sharing copyright-protected movies or music.
But the EU hasn’t gone as far as the Finns or the Spanish. As the article says:
Internet users still won’t have an automatic right to Internet access — as some EU lawmakers had originally intended. The European Parliament dropped that guarantee because of concerns it could hinder French and British efforts to cut off Internet access to persistent file sharers.
