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Network Neutrality And Foreclosing Market Exchange: A Transaction Cost Analysis
White Papers This paper analyzes the effects of "Network neutrality" proposals that seek to mandate an inflexible set of rules that would foreclose or severely limit many market transactions. Moreover, rules that prohibit the market from contracting efficiently...
[October 19, 2007, 1:00]
Nuts And Bolts Of Network Neutrality
White Papers Network neutrality is a vexing issue. One of the reasons the network neutrality debate is so murky is that relatively few people understand the mechanics of network discrimination. Proponents of neutrality regulation argue that the free, innovative...
[October 19, 2007, 1:00]
Consumer Protection And Quality Of Service (QoS), Including Network Neutrality And Cyber-Security Issues
White Papers The deployment of Next Generation Networks (NGN, using IP connectivity to support fixed, wireless and mobile voice, video, data, and broadcast TV services, provides new opportunities to increasing consumer choice.
[July 17, 2008, 0:00]
RIP Net Neutrality?
News The concept of network neutrality centres on the idea that all traffic running over the network, generally taken to be the Internet, should be treated in the same way without discrimination, and without some content being given priority.
[June 7, 2006, 15:30]
Cisco, Qualcomm Come Out Against Net Neutrality
News The letter, which was signed by 34 companies, said: "It is premature to attempt to enact some sort of network neutrality principles into law now. We are pleased that the committee rejected attempts to add so-called 'network neutrality' provisions...
[May 18, 2006, 10:05]
How The Democrats' Win Affects Tech
News Network neutrality is one of the clearest examples of a partisan rift. Clearly, we're going to have to address the question of network neutrality," Representative John Dingell, a Michigan Democrat, told reporters on Wednesday.
[November 10, 2006, 10:20]
Two Separate Arguments
Talkback The main concern of those in favour of net neutrality is the net should not discriminate between network traffic on the basis of who it came from or who it is going to, or what company or organisation supplied the end-point software.
[March 29, 2007, 11:33]
Net Neutrality Fight Returns To Senate
News Arguably the most contentious portion has turned out to be net neutrality, the idea that network operators should not be allowed to prioritise Internet content and services that travel across their pipes or to make deals with companies seeking...
[June 14, 2006, 10:40]
FTC Head Sceptical About Net Neutrality Laws
News The concept of network neutrality, which generally means that all Internet sites must be treated equally, has drawn a list of high-profile backers, from actress Alyssa Milano to Vint Cerf, one of the technical pioneers of the Internet.
[August 22, 2006, 9:40]
Google Lobbies For 'open' Wireless Networks
News The spectrum has also generated new talk of enacting net-neutrality regulations, which would prohibit network operators from prioritising any internet devices or services and from making deals with outside companies to provide priority access in...
[June 15, 2007, 10:07]
UK Regulators 'relaxed' On Net Neutrality
News Net neutrality has relatively little to do with backhaul on the core network," he said. There is currently no need to introduce net neutrality legislation in the UK, according to both Ofcom and the DTI.
[March 20, 2007, 16:42]
AT&T: Internet To Hit Full Capacity By 2010
News Although Cicconi's speech did not explicitly refer to the term "net neutrality", some audience members tackled him on the issue in a question-and-answer session, asking whether the subtext of his speech was really around prioritising some kinds of...
[April 18, 2008, 13:28]
Yahoo! Charged With Blocking Rivals
News The neutrality question emerged as a key theme in a B2B panel held on Tuesday afternoon at the Silicon Alley conference. But Walsh added that, "it's about neutrality of information. Neutrality of ownership is not the issue.
[March 1, 2000, 14:36]
Nothing Neutral About New Net Wars
Leader Net neutrality is a simple concept - a carrier should deal with every packet equally, regardless of source or destination. Laws to enforce net neutrality will only be necessary if the market fails. It's hard to imagine how such outmoded ideas could...
[June 12, 2006, 15:55]
EU Telecoms Gets Regulatory Shake-up
News Even the thorny issues of privacy and net neutrality are affected by the new framework. Net neutrality relates — among other things — to the ability of ISPs to prioritise chosen traffic. In related news, ETMA will absorb the European Network...
[November 14, 2007, 13:24]
Putting The Fibre Back Into Britain
Leader Network neutrality is a hot topic. It would enforce network neutrality by default, while encouraging value-added services that can rely on a high-performance infrastructure. With the internet now woven deeply into our lives, service providers...
[March 21, 2007, 15:10]
Internet Firms Attack US Broadband Bill
News Network neutrality is the idea that the companies that own the broadband pipes may not be able to configure their networks in a way that plays favourites - allowing them, for example, to transmit their own services at faster speeds, or to charge...
[March 29, 2006, 16:00]
BCS Calls For UK Net Neutrality Debate
News The time has come for the UK to join the growing debate surrounding network neutrality, the president of the British Computer Society has told ZDNet.co.uk. Professor Nigel Shadbolt said on Friday that, because so much of the internet's content is...
[September 17, 2007, 16:39]
Beyond Liberalization II: Reforming Universal Service
White Papers The proposal operates on the premise of competitive neutrality -- equal rights and equal burdens to all carriers in the network system. This article proposes a new way to fund universal service. Whether the carriers are traditional or new, they...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
European IT Chief Backs Net Neutrality
News Network neutrality' refers to the idea that all content should be treated equally by those who run the internet's infrastructure and access, just as it has been run since its earliest days. The discussion on network neutrality is not a technical...
[June 18, 2008, 17:23]
