[governance] The Gilder Friday Letter #Net Neutrality

[Adam Peake]

In the Verizon case in the U.S. I've heard that the judges are leaning towards allowing telecom and cable broadband providers to charge OTT players for prioritized network services, but will leave some other parts of the FCC's Open Internet rules intact.  Meanwhile in Europe, Commission vice president Neelie Kroes last week released proposals for major telecom reform aiming to create a single telecom market which include network neutrality provisions that would allow telcos to do much the same: they'd be able to differentiate their offers perhaps by speed and compete on enhanced quality of service.  Thou Kroes is also proposing to prevent throttling of traffic and blocking of some apps (Skype, WhatsApp etc etc). 
 
Press release for the EC proposals <http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-828_en.htm>, good summary <http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-13-779_en.htm>
 
If both the U.S. and Europe were to go this way, and not certain in either case, then guess it might become a bit of a norm for other country's to allow the same. 
 
Adam
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