Broadband Updates
New Study Suggests Benefits for Net Neutrality Policies
WASHINGTON, January 14, 2010 – Internet service providers and content providers are at a disadvantage since they are not compensated for all of the information they disseminate, and that leads to systematic underinvestment in the Internet, posits a new paper (PDF).
The authors of “Free to Invest: The Economic Benefits of Preserving Network Neutrality” say if that income could be accessed, government policy could help overcome that market failure.
WASHINGTON, January 14, 2010 – Internet service providers and content providers are at a disadvantage since they are not compensated for all of the information they disseminate, and that leads to systematic underinvestment in the Internet, posits a new paper (PDF).
The authors of “Free to Invest: The Economic Benefits of Preserving Network Neutrality” say if that income could be accessed, government policy could help overcome that market failure.
Without network neutrality rules, new technologies could lead to pricing practices that transfer wealth from content providers to ISPs, which the authors say is a form of price discrimination investment for Internet content managers. Web site owners, bloggers, news organizations and others would have less incentive to expand their sites and applications, says the report, published by the Institute for Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law.
The authors, Inimai Chettiar and J. Scott Holladay, say additional investment in broadband infrastructure also would increase the value of the Internet by making it faster and accessible in more places.
“But charging content providers for access to ISP customers is an extremely inefficient economic tool to do that, primarily because most additional revenue generated for ISPs is likely to be transferred to their shareholders rather than invested in expanding broadband lines,” they say.
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U.S. Broadband Deployment and Speeds are Beating Europe’s, Says Scholar Touting ‘Facilities-based Competition’
WASHINGTON, January 14, 2010 – Internet service providers and content providers are at a disadvantage since they are not compensated for all of the information they disseminate, and that leads to systematic underinvestment in the Internet, posits a new paper (PDF).
The authors of “Free to Invest: The Economic Benefits of Preserving Network Neutrality” say if that income could be accessed, government policy could help overcome that market failure.
Without network neutrality rules, new technologies could lead to pricing practices that transfer wealth from content providers to ISPs, which the authors say is a form of price discrimination investment for Internet content managers. Web site owners, bloggers, news organizations and others would have less incentive to expand their sites and applications, says the report, published by the Institute for Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law.
The authors, Inimai Chettiar and J. Scott Holladay, say additional investment in broadband infrastructure also would increase the value of the Internet by making it faster and accessible in more places.
“But charging content providers for access to ISP customers is an extremely inefficient economic tool to do that, primarily because most additional revenue generated for ISPs is likely to be transferred to their shareholders rather than invested in expanding broadband lines,” they say.
Broadband Updates
Discussion of Broadband Breakfast Club Virtual Event on High-Capacity Applications and Gigabit Connectivity
WASHINGTON, September 24, 2013 – The Broadband Breakfast Club released the first video of its Broadband Breakfast Club Virtual Event, on “How High-Capacity Applications Are Driving Gigabit Connectivity.”
The dialogue featured Dr. Glenn Ricart, Chief Technology Officer, US IGNITE; Sheldon Grizzle of GigTank in Chattanooga, Tennessee; Todd Marriott, Executive Director of UTOPIA, the Utah Telecommunications Open Infrastructure Agency, and Drew Clark, Chairman and Publisher, BroadbandBreakfast.com.
WASHINGTON, January 14, 2010 – Internet service providers and content providers are at a disadvantage since they are not compensated for all of the information they disseminate, and that leads to systematic underinvestment in the Internet, posits a new paper (PDF).
The authors of “Free to Invest: The Economic Benefits of Preserving Network Neutrality” say if that income could be accessed, government policy could help overcome that market failure.
Without network neutrality rules, new technologies could lead to pricing practices that transfer wealth from content providers to ISPs, which the authors say is a form of price discrimination investment for Internet content managers. Web site owners, bloggers, news organizations and others would have less incentive to expand their sites and applications, says the report, published by the Institute for Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law.
The authors, Inimai Chettiar and J. Scott Holladay, say additional investment in broadband infrastructure also would increase the value of the Internet by making it faster and accessible in more places.
“But charging content providers for access to ISP customers is an extremely inefficient economic tool to do that, primarily because most additional revenue generated for ISPs is likely to be transferred to their shareholders rather than invested in expanding broadband lines,” they say.
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Breakfast Club Video: ‘Gigabit and Ultra-High-Speed Networks: Where They Stand Now and How They Are Building the Future’
WASHINGTON, January 14, 2010 – Internet service providers and content providers are at a disadvantage since they are not compensated for all of the information they disseminate, and that leads to systematic underinvestment in the Internet, posits a new paper (PDF).
The authors of “Free to Invest: The Economic Benefits of Preserving Network Neutrality” say if that income could be accessed, government policy could help overcome that market failure.
Without network neutrality rules, new technologies could lead to pricing practices that transfer wealth from content providers to ISPs, which the authors say is a form of price discrimination investment for Internet content managers. Web site owners, bloggers, news organizations and others would have less incentive to expand their sites and applications, says the report, published by the Institute for Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law.
The authors, Inimai Chettiar and J. Scott Holladay, say additional investment in broadband infrastructure also would increase the value of the Internet by making it faster and accessible in more places.
“But charging content providers for access to ISP customers is an extremely inefficient economic tool to do that, primarily because most additional revenue generated for ISPs is likely to be transferred to their shareholders rather than invested in expanding broadband lines,” they say.
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