The quarrel over whether Internet service providers (such as Verizon) should be allowed to charge extra to content providers (such as Hulu) for enhanced service has had an inside-ball quality. On the one hand, advocates of new regulation warn of the dark day ahead when the big network operators will …
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Apologies to Tina Turner. But, yes, like the chair of the FCC (see our Jan. 12th post), we believe that discrimination does have a lot to do with the net neutrality debate. That agreement, though, is the beginning of the debate, not the end, because there is hardly a … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Dennis Carlton, FCC, Gary Becker, Google, Hal Singer, Net Neutrality, Nicholas Economides, Robert Litan, telecommunications policy, Verizon | Category: Net Neutrality |
 Leave a commentThe Chairman of the FCC wants to develop a new rule for governing the Internet based on the principle of non-discrimination. The idea in a (rather bulky) nutshell: broadband providers should not be permitted to “block or degrade lawful traffic over their networks or pick winners by favoring … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: FCC, Internet discrimination, Net Neutrality | Category: Net Neutrality |
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