Published in:AEI-Brookings Joint Center Working Paper ; No. RP07-05
Extent:
1 Online-Ressource (9 p)
Language:
English
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.973513
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Footnote:
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments March 2007 erstellt
Description:
Much of the advocacy of legislatively-mandated network neutrality is based on a simple fallacy - namely, that differing charges to suppliers of content to the Internet for correspondingly differing speeds of delivery are inherently discriminatory. They are not; and an attempt to prohibit them would prevent the Internet's offering a full range of services, with widely diverging tolerances for latency. Preservation of the open end-to-end character of the Internet may well, however, require vigilant prohibition of vertical squeezes and other unfair methods of competition and authority of an antitrust agency to compel interconnections