Net neutrality and the value chain for video

Net neutrality has, for a number of years, been a topic of often heated discussion in the Internet and telecom community. The issue was put firmly on the agenda by Tim Wu in his famous paper (Wu, 2003) following the discussion on a number of net-neutrality related issues by other authors (e.g. Lemley and Lessig, 2001). Since then, net neutrality has been analyzed extensively in academia and in regulatory circles (e.g. Marsden, 2010 and Marcus et al., 2008). Important recent regulatory positions are contained in the FCC’s 2010 Report and Order (FCC, 2011), the European Commission’s communication on the open Internet and net neutrality in Europe (European Commission, 2011) and the European Parliament’s resolution on that topic (European Parliament, 2011).