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Author: Andrew Odlyzko Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 19
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Network neutrality as such may fade from public interest discussions, but historical precedents going back for centuries argue that the underlying issues will continue to be debated. Those issues revolve around the basic tension between efficiency and fairness in markets, a tension that has never been completely resolved. Further, this tension is unlikely to ever be resolved, since our well-documented inability to predict the development of technology and its impact on society mean that no fixed set of rules can work indefinitely.Should net neutrality or some similar set of rules come to dominate (either because of market forces, or through regulation), attention would likely turn to other parts of the economy that might be perceived as choke points for social, economic, and political activities. If Net search becomes as important as the Google stock price seems to imply, for example, it might be the focal point for such concerns.Future controversies are of course matters of speculation. On the other hand, net neutrality and its close relatives, such as common carriage for the Internet, are current issues that have to be decided soon. What appears to be missing in the current debate is a discussion supported by reliable data of the basic fundamental economic question, namely whether a net neutral communication infrastructure can be viable. And if it is not, just how far from net neutrality is it necessary to move? Should pricing for Internet access be dependent on the income of the user, for example?There are arguments that a net neutral communication infrastructure should be viable. But to get there would require a major restructuring of the industry. The prospects of that are tied up not just with politics, but also with some of the great paradoxes of the current financial markets.It is possible to argue that the best outcome might be to have Google defeat ATamp;T in the battle over net neutrality, but then (and likely in any case) society might have to get ready to regulate Google!
Author: Andrew Odlyzko Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 19
Book Description
Network neutrality as such may fade from public interest discussions, but historical precedents going back for centuries argue that the underlying issues will continue to be debated. Those issues revolve around the basic tension between efficiency and fairness in markets, a tension that has never been completely resolved. Further, this tension is unlikely to ever be resolved, since our well-documented inability to predict the development of technology and its impact on society mean that no fixed set of rules can work indefinitely.Should net neutrality or some similar set of rules come to dominate (either because of market forces, or through regulation), attention would likely turn to other parts of the economy that might be perceived as choke points for social, economic, and political activities. If Net search becomes as important as the Google stock price seems to imply, for example, it might be the focal point for such concerns.Future controversies are of course matters of speculation. On the other hand, net neutrality and its close relatives, such as common carriage for the Internet, are current issues that have to be decided soon. What appears to be missing in the current debate is a discussion supported by reliable data of the basic fundamental economic question, namely whether a net neutral communication infrastructure can be viable. And if it is not, just how far from net neutrality is it necessary to move? Should pricing for Internet access be dependent on the income of the user, for example?There are arguments that a net neutral communication infrastructure should be viable. But to get there would require a major restructuring of the industry. The prospects of that are tied up not just with politics, but also with some of the great paradoxes of the current financial markets.It is possible to argue that the best outcome might be to have Google defeat ATamp;T in the battle over net neutrality, but then (and likely in any case) society might have to get ready to regulate Google!
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After a decade of discussion on how to guarantee an open, sustainable internet and often intense debate regarding the Federal Communications Commission's 2009 public hearing on the application of the principles of net neutrality, on 21st December 2010 the various elements that comprise the solution to this now famous controversy were passed. This solution has not satisfied many people, and nearly everyone agrees that it will not end the debate and nor will it resolve the underlying structural problems. This book examines the source, development and viewpoints on this issue based on contributions from leading experts from the academic and business worlds in the USA and Europe who have been involved in the debate. This is a highly important book for understanding the various points of view on the very current and controversial issue of web neutrality.
Author: Christopher T. Marsden Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1849660379 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 320
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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Chris Marsden maneuvers through the hype articulated by Netwrok Neutrality advocates and opponents. He offers a clear-headed analysis of the high stakes in this debate about the Internet's future, and fearlessly refutes the misinformation and misconceptions that about' Professor Rob Freiden, Penn State University Net Neutrality is a very heated and contested policy principle regarding access for content providers to the Internet end-user, and potential discrimination in that access where the end-user's ISP (or another ISP) blocks that access in part or whole. The suggestion has been that the problem can be resolved by either introducing greater competition, or closely policing conditions for vertically integrated service, such as VOIP. However, that is not the whole story, and ISPs as a whole have incentives to discriminate between content for matters such as network management of spam, to secure and maintain customer experience at current levels, and for economic benefit from new Quality of Service standards. This includes offering a 'priority lane' on the network for premium content types such as video and voice service. The author considers market developments and policy responses in Europe and the United States, draws conclusions and proposes regulatory recommendations.
Author: RAHUL JAIN Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3642303730 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 686
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Conference on Game Theory for Networks (GameNets 2011) held in Shanghai, China, April 16-18, 2011. The 45 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from numerous submissions and focus topics such as mechanism design, physical layer games, network mechanisms, stochastic and dynamic games, game-theoretic network models, cooperative games in networks, security games, spectrum sharing games, P2P and social networks and economics of network QoS.
Author: Alain Strowel Publisher: Primento ISBN: 2802743309 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 166
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La neutralité de l’Internet requiert de garantir aux usagers un accès égal à tous les services et contenus en ligne. En pratique, la gestion du trafic oblige les opérateurs à différencier certains paquets d’information circulant sur les réseaux, par exemple pour lutter contre les messages indésirables. Parfois le traitement différencié des contenus engendre des discriminations non justifiées. Ainsi, en est-il si un opérateur en place dégrade un service concurrent de téléphonie sur Internet, tel que Skype. Le droit de la concurrence permet a priori de sanctionner un tel comportement anti-concurrentiel. Mais cela suffit-il à assurer la neutralité des réseaux ? Par ailleurs, l’augmentation rapide du trafic et l’ampleur des investissements à faire dans les infrastructures du futur incitent les opérateurs à limiter les débits de base, tout en garantissant la qualité de services spécialisés, par exemple de vidéoconférence. Cette différenciation des offres a un prix. On s’éloigne du principe originel de l’Internet qui veut que toutes les communications soient traitées de la même manière. Depuis quelques années, des académiques et pionniers de l’Internet dénoncent le risque d’un Internet « à plusieurs vitesses ». Aujourd’hui, les voix des consommateurs se font entendre. Faut-il adopter une législation spécifique ? Le cadre actuel des télécommunications en Europe suffit-il pour garantir la neutralité ? Mais d’abord, comment définir la neutralité de l’Internet ? Telles sont quelques-unes des questions que cet ouvrage examine à un moment où la neutralité de l’Internet revient dans l’actualité. En juin 2013, la Commission européenne a en effet affiché sa volonté de légiférer en la matière. Le présent recueil de contributions vient donc à point nommé. This book summarizes the state of discussions regarding net neutrality in Europe. It comes at the time the European Commission intends to legislate to guarantee the right of all citizens to access the open Internet. Net neutrality is not only about how to ensure the fundamental right to receive and impart online information. The rules on the protection of consumers, by fostering transparency, also contribute to Internet neutrality and openness. Similarly competition law prohibits anti-competitive discrimination, including in Internet communications. Net neutrality thus appears at the juncture of various areas of the law. The contributions of this book compare the merits of various forms of regulation and discuss the policy dimensions of the net neutrality debate.
Author: Karim Djemame Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 303036027X Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 304
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, GECON 2019, held in Leeds, UK, in September 2019. The 12 full papers and 10 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. This GECON 2019 proceedings was structured in selected topics, namely: blockchain technology and smart contracts; cost-based computing allocation; resource, service and communication federations; economic assessment, business and pricing models; blockchain and network function virtualization technologies; economic models for cyber-physical systems, industry 4.0 and sustainable systems; resource management; and emerging ideas.
Author: Antonis M. Hadjiantonis Publisher: Springer ISBN: 364230382X Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 251
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This book constitutes a collaborative and selected documentation of the scientific outcome of the European COST Action IS0605 Econ@Tel "A Telecommunications Economics COST Network" which run from October 2007 to October 2011. Involving experts from around 20 European countries, the goal of Econ@Tel was to develop a strategic research and training network among key people and organizations in order to enhance Europe's competence in the field of telecommunications economics. Reflecting the organization of the COST Action IS0605 Econ@Tel in working groups the following four major research areas are addressed: - evolution and regulation of communication ecosystems; - social and policy implications of communication technologies; - economics and governance of future networks; - future networks management architectures and mechanisms.
Author: Patrick Maillé Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 110703275X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 303
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An up-to-date guide to the economic issues in telecommunications, delivering a comprehensive overview from mathematical models to practical applications. Covering hot topics such as app stores, auctions for advertisements, search engine business models, network neutrality and virtual network operators, this resource is ideal for graduate students, researchers and industry practitioners.
Author: Congduc Pham Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319680668 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 300
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, GECON 2017, held in Biarritz, France, in September 2017. The 10 full papers and 10 short papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. This volume of the GECON 2017 proceedings has been structured in sections following the sessions that comprised the conference program: Pricing in Cloud and Quality of Service, Work in Progress on Service Management, Work in Progress on Business models and Community Cooperation, Work in Progress on Energy Efficiency and Resource Management, Resource Management, Edge Computing, Cloud Federation; and Work in Progress on Service Selection and Coordination.
Author: Andrew Odlyzko
Author: Andrew Odlyzko
Author: Jorge Pérez Martínez (Coord.)
Author: Christopher T. Marsden
Author: RAHUL JAIN
Author: Alain Strowel
Author: Karim Djemame
Author: Antonis M. Hadjiantonis
Author: Patrick Maillé
Author: Congduc Pham
Author: Berin Szoka