[governance] Google's Fight the ITU/WCIT website

[Adam Peake]

Google attacks UN net conference

<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20429625>








On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
>
> Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net> wrote:
>
> > Norbert Bollow [21/11/12 10:36 +0100]:
> > >> I fail to see how google selling email, collaboration etc services
> > >> to telcos has anything to do with the free and open internet here.
> > >
> > >You may need to read up on the very significant body of literature
> > >that exists about the effects of this kind of partnerships.
> >
> > I haven't seen significant papers in this area, but am glad to be
> > corrected.
> >
> > I do come from a background where my workplace (and my previous
> > workplace) have been large mail hosting shops that hosted mail for
> > everything from small businesses, ngos and universities to ISPs and
> > free webmail providers.  So - please do tell me just what effect
> > outsourcing your mail hosting has, from a governance standpoint. I
> > might be able to provide a counterpoint or two.
>
> I don't know about any literature on this specific type of deal
> that would describe how there's a significant difference between
> that "email, collaboration etc services" deal with a company with
> Google's technical and market power muscle as opposed to outsourcing
> just email to the kind of company that you describe.
>
> But there's a significant body of literature on antitrust concerns in
> general, and it's easy to find. Also there is literature on price
> discrimination, which goes very much to the heart of Parminder's point
> as I understand it. I would propose that a good starting point on that
> topic is this paper:
>
> A. M. Odlyzko: The evolution of price discrimination in transportation
> and its implications for the Internet, Review of Network Economics,
> vol. 3, no. 3, September 2004, pp. 323-346.
> http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/rne33.pdf
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
>
>
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