Strategic Investment Dependence and Net Neutrality

Net Neutrality, Reclassification and Investment: A Further Analysis

In a recent paper, Net Neutrality, Reclassification and Investment: A Counterfactual Analysis1, I used the difference-in-differences methodology to estimate the effect on telecommunications investment of the Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC”) Net Neutrality policies, including especially the Agency’s decision to reclassify broadband as a Title II common carrier telecommunications servi...

Net Neutrality vs. Net Neutering

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...

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 and inflation of traffic

Under strict net neutrality Internet service providers (ISPs) are required to carry data without any differentiation and at no cost to the content provider. We provide a simple framework with a monopoly ISP to evaluate different net neutrality rules. Content differs in its sensitivity to delay. Content providers can use congestion control techniques to reduce delay for their content, but do not...