How do I get a “fast lane” on the Internet?
Ask the Engineer: How do I get a “fast lane” on the Internet? Innovator: I’ve read that the FCC’s new regulations would prevent ISPs from charging web sites for fast…
Assessing Minimum Quality of Service
One of the models for harmonizing net neutrality principles with innovation imperatives allows broadband ISPs to offer customized delivery services to real-time and non-time-critical applications provided that the basic service…
The Etiquette of Internet Service Quality
One of the central issues in the development of Internet policy is the matter of priorities. Proponents of network neutrality insist that service providers should not be able to sell…
Interesting Technologies Raise Interesting Questions — and Opportunities
Silicon Valley and its imitators around the world are always active on dozens of fronts that don’t break into the news cycle until they’ve gone through several cycles of innovation,…
A New Way to Look at Net Neutrality
New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute is circulating a proposal by consultant CTC Technology and Energy titled “Mobile Broadband Networks Can Manage Congestion While Abiding By Open Internet Principles” that…
Can We Validate the Cost of Connectivity?
The latest addition of the New America Foundation’s “Cost of Connectivity” report is successfully gaining attention from bloggers and journalists who accept its claims at face value. Some of the…
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…