April 19, 2010

Network Neutrality: I Repeat, the Market Knows...

A piece ran in the NYT yesterday - "Getting What You Pay For on the Mobile Internet" - that underscored the points I made and offered specific European operator examples of the market-based broadband (mobile) tiering model that I pondered in my post on March 11.

Bottom line: The market can contrive the appropriate and fair mechanisms, so long as competition prevails, which should perhaps be a greater concern for regulatory authorities than whether or not entire new governance structures need to be defined for an Internet age that will have evolved twice-over again by the time any "new" regulatory regime becomes reality...

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