Antitrust Oversight of an Antitrust Dispute: An Institutional Perspective on the Net Neutrality Debate

What Can Antitrust Contribute to the Network Neutrality Debate?

Dynamic Effects of Network Neutrality

At the heart of the network neutrality debate is a challenging institutional design problem: the selection of a regime to govern the relations between the stakeholders in the complex value net of advanced communication services, most importantly between platform operators and providers of applications and content. How it is resolved will have far-reaching effects on the future evolution of comm...

An antitrust analysis of the case for wireless network neutrality

The ongoing debate about possible implementation of regulatory rules requiring “network neutrality” for wireless telecommunications services is inherently about whether to impose a prohibition on the ability of network operators to control their vertical relationships. Antitrust analysis is well suited to analyze whether a wireless network neutrality rule is socially beneficial. Implementing ne...

Telecommunications: The Transition from Regulation to Antitrust

INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 159 I. THE CASE AND TRIPPING POINT FOR DEREGULATION ..................... 160 II. THE EXPANDED ROLE OF ANTITRUST ............................................. 165 III. “NETWORK NEUTRALITY” ............................................................. 175 CONCLUSION....................................

Interconnection Discrimination: A Two-Sided Markets Perspective

We first motivate a methodological approach to network economics research using tools from Industrial Organization (IO). We then demonstrate the utility of such models in light of an increasingly important problem of interconnection failures that includes network neutrality problem. In particular, we focus on a subset of the problem by focusing on direct interconnection failures when ISPs price...