The European Commission (EC) has opted not to rush into regulation, with Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton publishing a LinkedIn post that effectively shunts any such decision into the new year. This is part of the ‘fair contribution’ debate, which we have lambasted previously, but the low-key nature of the announcement suggests a climbdown. The rhetoric surrounding ‘fair share,’ the position that the traffic on ISP networks is a burden unfairly placed on the network operators, had been intensifying in recent months. Breton’s announcement should dampen expectations, but the commissioner does argue that the EC should attempt to address ‘market fragmentation.’ Key to this will be the Digital Networks Act, but there is no more detail for this plan currently…