[governance] Net neutrality on mobiles

Jeanette Hofmann jeanette at wzb.eu
Tue Aug 10 09:19:56 EDT 2010




> All of it misses the point that the telcos have never really been NN
> practitioners, it's just not part of who they are.
>
> My question is "why now?" What does Google have to gain at this point
> by saying " under this proposal we would not now apply most of the
> wireline principles to wireless, except for the transparency
> requirement".   Is this the best they could get?

Perhaps Google expects the pro-neutrality camp to fall apart and other 
content providers negotiating deals with carriers as well? Perhaps 
Google-Verizon is just the first deal that goes public.

jeanette


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