The OPTA wants more this year focused on the duty that providers have to customer data safe to store. Also will the regulator monitoring on the ‘cookie rules’ and new rules that net neutrality must be guaranteed.
The priorities of the OPTA have been prepared in the budget for this year. The telecomwaakhond writes for, among other things, that isps must be transparent in the quality and speed that they offer. So would the consumer easier a subscription can choose the one that fits their needs. In addition, customers must be able to trust that providers in their systems are sufficiently secure, whereby the OPTA by the way the hack on the systems of KPN is not explicitly called.
A spokesman of the OPTA late Tweakers.net know that the supervisor is not at all the providers along will go to to ascertain if the security of customer data is sufficiently secure. This will be the supervisor, only do so if there is a concrete suspicion that a isp business is not in order, for example, as a result of messages in the media, private investigation or a notification of a whistleblower.
Another priority that the OPTA mentions is net neutrality. The rules that net neutrality should guarantee, will probably in the course of 2012 to enter as soon as the First Room the green light to do so. In addition, promises the supervisor to supervise compliance with the cookie provisions. According to these rules serve websites to visitors to ask permission before placing a cookie on a computer or smartphone may be placed.
The regulator says further more to want to focus on the ‘online threats’ in the mobile sector. That is the OPTA in map going to bring in what degree smartphone users suffer from malware and spam. It is still unclear what measures the supervisor on the mobile internet market, although in the past several times fines handed out to spammers.
The OPTA promises in the course of 2012 the rates to disclose that the KPN/Reggefiber to competitors may request to access the fiber network of the telecommunications company. In addition, KPN is forced to put his rates in the business telephony market decrease, allowing competing companies, a higher margin could achieve. The margins should rise to a maximum of 19 percent, while this is currently just 1 percent.
Despite the revised objectives, the OPTA are controlling task with less staff to perform; due to budget cuts there will be in the coming years, 26 full-time-job cuts are going to be so there are eventually 128 members of staff at the watchdog will remain. In January 2013 the OPTA in addition, together with the consumer protection authority and the Dutch competition Authority merge into the Authority Consumer and Market.