[governance] [lack of] Net Neutrality for Mobile Internet in different shapes and forms?

[Louis Pouzin (well)]

What's New @ IEEE-USA - Eye On Washington
Vol. 2011, No. 4 (18 March 2011)
http://ieeeusa.org/policy/eyeonwashington/2011/04eow2011.asp

FCC bill stalled.

Disapproval Resolution for 'Net Neutrality' Rules Advances Out of House
Energy & Commerce Committee
. . .
"the Committee approved a resolution of disapproval (H J Res
37<http://www.cq.com/bill/112/HJRES37>)
that turns back rules adopted by the FCC in December
2010<http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/Media/file/Hearings/Telecom/030911/MarkupMemo.pdf>barring
fixed broadband service providers from blocking content and
unnecessarily discriminating in transmitting network traffic."
. . .
The resolution gives broadband service providers a "green light to block
from consumers any applications, content and services they choose to block,"
said Edward J. Markey ( D-Mass.). "I am not saying that all providers will
do this, but some certainly will."


WHAT NEXT ?
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On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Roland Perry <
roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:

> In message <AANLkTimNELUwNo7pJCjoCNJD0x77t9bnfjavpDxm3eWW at mail.gmail.com>,
> at 18:30:30 on Sat, 19 Mar 2011, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <
> salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> writes
>
>  These are very interesting email exchanges by the list. The questions I
>> have are to what extent then should content be controlled and what are
>> the rules for the prioritisation of traffic and who decides? Is it the
>> ISP that decides or is the regulator that decides and the ISPs enforce.
>>
>
> In the current UK case, the ISPs have identified some traffic (P2P and
> NNTP) which they say is causing most of the congestion. The regulator is
> asking them to be transparent about the measures introduced to rate-limit
> those two kinds of traffic.
>
> It's not as sophisticated as it could be (I don't like to see text-only
> NNTP restricted because that's collateral damage). But I can now see who is
> going to be introducing measures.
>
>
>  What are the Traffic rules?
>>
>> Should the person or persons downloading videos (whether they are
>> pirate or not) be profiled and given the option to purchase a different
>> product line so that they do not crowd up the Network?
>>
>
> In most cases they already have that option. In most cases they simply
> choose not to pay the extra.
>
>
>  Or would the Network be crowded anyway?
>>
>
> The network will still be crowded, but the ISP can prioritise the traffic
> of its higher-paying customers over that part of the network which matters.
> It can also use the higher revenue to buy higher bandwidth infrastructure
> (for everyone to benefit from).
>
>
>  Does this mean that policy writers who will think about the dynamics
>> behind what would be rules to guide open networks, would they have to
>> have some kind of economic model to govern the supply and demand of the
>> various types of traffic within a country's national network?
>>
>
> I'm sure the ISPs have very sophisticated models of the traffic flow inside
> their networks.
>
>
>  I don't know these answers and am not certain I am asking the right
>> questions but I would really love to understand the dynamics of
>> Internet Governance surrounding these issues.
>>
>
> It's a consumer protection issue mainly. Although there's quite a lot of
> Internet Governance which is there to protect the rights of consumers (eg
> many of the rules regarding the behaviour of domain name registries towards
> their customers).
>
> Roland.
>
>
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