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Net neutrality is under attack

Zero-rating: a blessing for consumers or a net neutrality nightmare?

By 25 April 2017 0

The author of this article is Robert SOMOGYI. Robert is a postdoctoral fellow at CORE (Université catholique de Louvain). In his Ph.D. thesis, prepared at Ecole Polytechnique and CREST, he analyzed the price setting behavior of firms that face capacity constraints under various market settings. Recently, he has been working on issues related to the digital economy in general and […]

Not on my network! App exclusion and the net neutrality debate

By 21 April 2015 7

IPdigIT continues its series of posts on net neutrality (see here and here) by republishing a Policy Brief of the Liège Competition and Innovation Institute (LCII), written by Axel Gautier and Sébastien Broos.   The net neutrality debate is at its peak. On January 27, the Dutch Authority for Competition and Markets (DACM) fined KPN […]

"No Downhill Loading"

Riposte graduée : accord américain sur un régime de « six strike »

By 14 July 2011 1

  L’accord que viennent de conclure les représentants d’ayants-droit (RIAA, MPAA) et les principaux fournisseurs d’accès à Internet américains (dont AT&T, Comcast et Verizon), pose les jalons de ce qui sera sans doute la plus vaste application de la doctrine de la « réponse graduée » à la problématique du téléchargement illégal. Au prix d’une privatisation de […]