Net Neutrality

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Comment by Aneal Giddings on April 26, 2012 at 1:14am

Colleagues, please find attached link to article that deals with a monopoly held by the major telco in Guyana and an upcoming foreign telco that is calling to arms anyone interested in the end of this tactic.

Digicel looks to new Parliament to end GT&T’s monopoly

Comment by Jorge Jose L on April 18, 2012 at 9:01pm

Net Neutrality is a very important issue because concerns to the regulatory framework we should want to build and to perpetuate by generations.

Indeed the law that should be drafted by countries can't do references to a specific technology, because the consequences will be the decay of the bill.

For citizens to abide a lawit  needs to refer generically to all kinds of technology existing today and why not in the future.

Comment by Mwende Njiraini on November 24, 2011 at 2:25pm

Ofcom’s approach to net neutrality

• We recognise the benefits associated with 'best-efforts' internet access and the provision of managed services, and seek for them to co-exist.

 

• We would be concerned if network operators were to prioritise managed services in a manner that leaves insufficient network capacity for 'best-efforts' access to the open internet. In such circumstances we would consider using the powers which allow us to safeguard 'best-efforts' access to the open internet by imposing a minimum quality of service on all communications providers.

 

• We regard any blocking of alternative services by providers of internet access as highly undesirable. Where providers of internet access apply traffic management in a discriminatory manner, our view is that this could have a similar impact to outright blocking. Our current view is that we should be able to rely on the operation of market forces to address the issues of blocking and discrimination, but we will keep this position under review.

 

• Effective competition requires that sufficient information is available to enable consumers to make good purchasing decisions. This document sets out our current view as to what we believe to be necessary, both in terms of technical information on traffic management practices, and transparency as to services which are blocked or discriminated against.

Comment by Keisha Taylor on October 4, 2011 at 10:12pm

Please find a link to the paper I did for Access (www.accessnow.org) titled "The Importance of Net Neutrality for Emerging and Developing Count....  A press release about the paper was also made available at the IGF where it was launched. All comments are welcomed! I did quite a lot of research and gave an updated view of what is at stake. Please distribute and share.

Comment by Ljubisa Gavrilovic on July 7, 2011 at 3:03pm

We are obviously going to see more of these moves worldwide. As to why tiered plans are a Net Neutrality issue consult:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiered_service

First the world was distant and close only to ones who can pay overseas phone conversations, the we got internet and the world became smaller place, with the division of affordability of telecommunication tiered plans we are again making world more distant from each other. And this trend seem to be unstoppable.

In response to (quoting)

Verizon iPhone's been out there for a while, and now Verizon is going tiered, probably for the obvious reason: Tiered plans bring in more cash.

AT&T, of course, has already moved its customers to a tiered plan, and T-Mobile throttles – or slows – service after users hit a certain data threshold. With the latest news from Verizon, Sprint has effectively become the only major US carrier that provides an option for real, unlimited data usage. Which is very good news for Sprint.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2011/0707/Verizon-hang...

Comment by Ljubisa Gavrilovic on June 24, 2011 at 1:14am

Serbian Police Department and Mobile Telephony provider Telenor (Serbian Mobile provider with Norwegian origin) had signed an agreement about filtering internet trafic in Serbia that aims on controlling access to web sites that proliferate child pornography. Police department and Telenor will rely on the list of sites that Telenor gets from the international exchange.
As much as this move is noble, and aims to protect internet users not to step on and accidentally get involved of possession of illegal content, it also rised concern that internet traffic could be filtered further for other subjects, since whole area of filtering and not filtering traffic is not legally regulated in any way.
Current state of afairs is that certain mobile internet providers already do filter specific type of traffic namely peer2peer by decreasing speed of the exchange (it is not fully stopped, just crawled down), yet this is nowhere declaratively stated nor stopped.
Serbia is stil considered IP rights off zone  as many internet content is already filtered by geolocation systems.

Comment by Keisha Taylor on June 23, 2011 at 6:29pm

 Access, www.accessnow.org, is hosting a web symposium titled “To regulate or not to regulate: That is the question", with some great speakers, including representatives from the Netherlands and Chile, the only 2 countries with net neutrality enshrined in law. You can find out more here https://www.accessnow.org/policy-activism/press-blog/web-symposium-... It promising to be interesting, informative and engaging so if you are interested in net neutrality issues you can attend online. It will be held on the 27th June 2011 at 12:00 - 1:15 Est time (the day before the OECD High-Level Meeting on The Internet Economy).

For the first time, the G8 Heads of State explicitly discussed internet policy last month; the OECD is holding a High-Level Meeting to discuss “The Internet Economy” next week; nearly a dozen countries are negotiating a Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement with real implications for online intermediary liability; and this week the Dutch became the first country in Europe to make net neutrality law.

This ACCESS LIVE event, an online live-streamed symposium, will give an overview of recent developments in internet policy, discuss the implications that regulation has had and will likely have on users in the future, and debate what a roadmap to smart and user-centric governance of the net might look like.

Comment by Keisha Taylor on June 8, 2011 at 10:57pm

Thanks for that piece of information Ljubisa!

Comment by Ljubisa Gavrilovic on June 8, 2011 at 10:52pm

Internet as human right is very good start, this issue has been stressed on last eurodig in several discussions. However, this is not enough of protection when it comes to private data.

Another move on the field is Netherlands net-neutrality law....

Chile Netherland Net Neutrality laws

Comment by Keisha Taylor on June 8, 2011 at 8:56pm

Official acknowledgement by the UN that Internet Access is a human right.  I hope this helps to ensure that the net remains neutral http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/06/united-nations-r...

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