Recently, the EU mentioned that the reason for the revision was that “consumers and businesses increasingly rely on new internet-based services enabling inter-personal communications such as Voice over IP, instant messaging and web-based e-mail services, instead of traditional communications services.
Il documento della Commissione spiega che “consumatori e aziende dipendono sempre più da nuovi servizi basati su Internet che abilitano comunicazioni interpersonali come Voice over IP, instant messaging e posta elettronica web-based”.