Net Neutrality

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Comment by Virginia (Ginger) Paque on December 23, 2009 at 10:56pm

On November 17th TechDebate held an Oxford Style debate on Network Neutrality. Check it out, see if you can guess who won. http://tech-debate.com/

I enjoyed the debate very much...

The Debaters
Against

* James Assey – Executive Vice President, National Cable and Telecommunications Association
* Robert Quinn – Senior Vice President-Federal Regulatory, AT&T
* Christopher Yoo – Professor of Law and Communication; Director, Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition, UPenn Law

For
* Tim Wu – Coined the term “Network Neutrality”; Professor of Law, Columbia Law
* Brad Burnham – VC, Union Square Ventures
* Nicholas Economides – Professor of Economics, Stern School of Business, New York University.

Comment by Jorge Bossio on November 23, 2009 at 1:32am

full debate on #netneutrality at #igf09 was not recorded at UN website ... do you know why? http://bit.ly/92yMnt (only 11 minutes)

Comment by Virginia (Ginger) Paque on October 30, 2009 at 2:27pm

Interesting article at the Huffington Post Online: Losing Net nNeutrality, What the Worst Case Scenario Looks Like at:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/29/losing-net-neutrality-wha_...

RELATED:
This is what it sounds like when Net Neutrality dies [Crunchgear]
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/10/28/this-is-what-it-sounds-like-wh...

Jon Stewart Takes On "Net Neutrality" (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/27/jon-stewart-takes-on-net_n...

Comment by Ljubisa Gavrilovic on October 10, 2009 at 11:44pm

AT&T vs Google regarding Google Voice

"Sex, conference calls, outdated FCC rules" & our take on Google Voice

a google viewpoint on net neutrality - http://bit.ly/1MxQFs

Comment by Wolf Ludwig on September 22, 2009 at 3:19pm

Thanks for the hint, Vlada, here is another interesting link regarding the NN debate in the US from WSJ:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125329467451823485.html

Comment by Vladimir Radunovic on September 22, 2009 at 12:04pm

BBC brings a story on the new US (FFC) policy on Network Neutrality, and the reactions of the business sector and the consumers:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8267366.stm

Seems their accent is more on wireless (harware). It would be interesting to get a full version and compare with the Norwegian NN principles:
http://www.npt.no/ikbViewer/Content/109604/Guidelines%20for%20netwo...
which cover the areas of capacity and quality of the connection, discrimination with regard to type of application, service or content, hardware or software used or senders/receivers address...

The Norwegian principle was based on a (general) concensus of various stakeholders in Norway and is, to some extend, a soft law ("name-blame-shame" principle). The FCC ones seems to be a regulatory approach.
Which one is more convenient?

Comment by Vladimir Radunovic on August 31, 2009 at 1:14pm

Rafik drew my attention to the most recent "NN-violation" in Egypt, as of August:
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/08/07/egypt-te-data-fair-usage-p...
and
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/08/09/egypt-adverse-reactions-to...

In short, the Egypt's ISP TE-Data started limiting the overall monthly download amount even for the "unlimited" packages that are more expensive.

This is an interesting case: it might not seem as a direct NN violation as there is still free choice of users of what content or service or hardware they will use. But nevertheless their choices are limited by the limited monthly download for the "unlimited" package...

In my opinion the market should regulate this - the more ISPs with the variety of offers and soon TE-Data would stay without users... But - should it is also be the case of the regulatory authority of Egypt?

Let me know what you think. I will also ask our friends from NTRA to comment.

Comment by Charles Amega-Selorm on July 21, 2009 at 9:14am

Here is as interesting article on Net neutrality;

http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/09/07/20/if-you-love-internet-fight-it

Enjoy!

Comment by Atty. Elias Laurente Espinoza on July 13, 2009 at 4:13am

Net neutrality, what is this? To me, it is about like a hands-off policy from providers and the controllers (government) on how the net is run. i agree with Shreedeep that this is one thing, if implemented could avoid if not prevent net discrimination. it also could close the gap of the divide.

Comment by Shreedeep Rayamajhi on July 12, 2009 at 8:35pm

I think Net neutrality is something that talks about standard rules, regulations and policies abolishing discrimination. Today the discrimination in internet resources has created a vacuum in between the developed and underdeveloped countries where conflicts are arising. It’s the major obstacle for standardization and until and unless the concept of net neutrality is adapted the objectives and goals of Internet governance forum cannot be achieved. The standardization, net neutrality and IGF are the core component of the future where the success and growth of the internet depends upon them.

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