Net Neutrality and the Incentives (Not) to Exclude Competitors

Net Neutrality vs. Net Neutering

The delusions of net neutrality

Service providers argue that if net neutrality is not enforced, they will have sufficient incentives to build special high-quality channels that will take the Internet to the next level of its evolution. But what if they do get their wish, net neutrality is consigned to the dustbin, and they do build their new services, but nobody uses them? If the networks that are built are the ones that are ...

Net Neutrality Language Analysis

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been seeking public comments about net neutrality. It is found that a great majority of these comments were written from format letters potentially provided by several campaign groups. Principle Components Analysis (PCA) was first used to visualize the data set and it is found that the data are obviously clustered. Based on this fact, several clas...

A Technical Approach to Net Neutrality

A recent statement by AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre sparked considerable fear in the public that the Internet may not be open any more: the ISPs dictate which sites/applications flourish and which flounder. The statement triggered the heated debate on net neutrality and ignited the battle to enact net neutrality legislation. However, by the date of writing, all attempts to pass net neutrality laws have ...

A Two-Sided Market Analysis of Provider Investment Incentives With an Application to the Net-Neutrality Issue.∗

We address whether providers of last-mile access (local ISPs) to end users should be allowed to charge content providers, who derive advertising revenue, for the right to access end users. This question is part of the larger debate on network neutrality. We compare two-sided pricing where these charges are allowed to one-sided pricing where such charges are prohibited by possible network neutra...