Tag Archives | net neutrality

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 […]

Can Obama’s initiative ensure that ‘internet fast lanes’ do not develop to the detriment of standard access?

By 18 November 2014 18

  On November 10, 2014, the US president called the agency in charge of regulating the media, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) to adopt clear rules on net neutrality. A few months ago, the FCC had proposed to give Internet Service Providers (ISPs) the freedom to charge for favored access to bandwidth the content providers […]

Vient de paraître : Nouveaux écrans, nouvelle régulation ?

By 24 November 2013 0

Pierre-François DOCQUIR, Muriel HANOT, (Dir.), Nouveaux écrans, nouvelle régulation ?, Collection droit des technologies, Larcier, 272 p., paru en octobre 2013. La télévision connectée constitue aujourd’hui l’un des signes visibles des mutations profondes et irrémédiables qui travaillent l’écosystème des médias. Cet appareil révèle la part croissante prise par Internet dans la circulation des contenus audiovisuels […]