India Issues Net Neutrality Report
After taking comments from interested parties (including your faithful correspondent), India’s Department of Telecommunications has issued a committee report outlining a high-level approach. The report spends most of its time…
Net Neutrality in India: Missionary Zeal v. Zero-Rating
Internet policy in general and net neutrality in particular isn’t limited to the United States, of course. The first nation to pass a net neutrality law was Chile, and technically…
The Internet is just a prototype
What might we do with the Internet of the future? The world is about to be filled with autonomous cars, social robots, and delivery drones. These will all need to…
Who’s making money on the Internet?
One of the background questions in Internet policy debates concerns what and who contributes value to the overall system and who extracts profits. In a perfectly functioning market, profits will…
Happy Net Neutrality Day
Once again, we’ve come to another deadline for the filing of comments to the FCC on net neutrality, possibly the most mystifying subject in the history of technology policy. This…
Does Netflix Have Amnesia?
I’m paying for Netflix and I’m paying for Internet connectivity, why do I care if they pay each other for faster service? Actually why aren’t they? In our instant gratification…
Like Sisyphus the FCC Pushes On
[I filed some comments with the FCC today in the Open Internet Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. It’s hard to believe, but the FCC has been at this for ten years…
What the FCC’s Broadband Tests Really Measure
The data in the “Measuring Broadband America” report released by the FCC on June 18th shows that Americans get the broadband speeds they pay for. The report plainly says (page…
Net Neutrality Advocates Score an Own Goal
In soccer, an “own goal” is scoring a goal for the other team. In this connection, I recommend Jon Healey’s column in the LA Times on net neutrality objections to…