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Net Neutrality or Net Neutering: Should Broadband Internet Services Be Regulated

Publication year: 2006

ISBN: 978-0-387-33928-3

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The subject of this book – whether or not to extend traditional telecommunications regulation to high-speed or "broadband" access to the Internet – is perhaps the most important issue now facing the Federal Communications Commission. The issue is also very contentious, with influential economic interests as well as academics on both sides of the question. Content providers – Microsoft and Amazon, for instance – argue that broadband providers should be treated as common carriers, required to transmit all content in a nondiscriminatory way. The broadband providers – the telephone and cable companies – argue that no bottleneck monopoly exists to justify such regulation and that, if imposed, it would stifle development of the Internet.


Subject: Business and Economics, Broadband, Internet, Regulation, evolution, law