Antecedents to net neutrality: after the long fight to end the "common carrier," why are we trying to resurrect it?(TELECOMMUNICATIONS & TECHNOLOGY)

From: Regulation | Date: September 22, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Apparent ignorance of more than a century of economic and regulatory history now threatens the competitive constitution of the Internet under the guise of "net neutrality." Net neutrality is a slogan that stands for the proposition that the Internet and physical means of access to it should be available to all on uniform, nondiscriminatory terms. Some net neutrality proponents go further and argue that firms providing physical components of the Internet should not be permitted to offer different qualities of service, even if prices differ accordingly, and even if any customer can ...

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