Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/44343 
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Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
21st European Regional Conference of the International Telecommunications Society (ITS): "Telecommunications at New Crossroads: Changing Value Configurations, User Roles, and Regulation", Copenhagen, Denmark, 13th-15th September 2010 No. 19
Publisher: 
International Telecommunications Society (ITS), Calgary
Abstract: 
In order to create incentives for Internet traffic providers not to discriminate with respect to certain applications on the basis of network capacity requirements, the concept of market driven network neutrality is introduced. Its basic characteristics are that all applications are bearing the opportunity costs of the required traffic capacities. An economic framework for market driven network neutrality in broadband Internet is provided, consisting of congestion pricing and quality of service differentiation. However, network neutrality regulation with its reference point of the traditional TCP would result in regulatory micromanagement of traffic network management.
Subjects: 
Broadband Internet
network neutrality
quality of service differentiation
congestion pricing
interclass externality pricing
interconnection agreements
JEL: 
D85
L51
L86
L96
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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