There is widespread concern in the telecommunications industry that public policy may be impeding the continued development of the Internet into a high-speed communications network. In the absence of ubiquitous, high-speed ¡°broadband¡± Internet connections for residential and small-business...

The law of net neutrality has been in effect in the Netherlands since January 1, 2013, after having been passed on June 5, 2011 by the Lower House of the Dutch Parliament and then ratified by the Upper House a year later. This paper investigates the policy, its process, and its impact. It offers...

The debate on network neutrality over the past decade has evolved (in the academic sphere but not so much in public) to include sophisticated considerations of the welfare enhancing or reducing effects of mandating network neutrality. For example, in a model by Economides and Hermalin (2012) it...

This Article explains that the Internet is inherently non-neutral, and that this non-neutrality stems from the very architectural features that make the Internet a cost-effective means of communication. I argue that the ongoing network neutrality debate is better understood as being about the...

Two mobile service pricing frameworks have developed around the world, calling party pays (CPP) and mobile party pays (MPP). With CPP, a wireline customer is billed for placing a call to a mobile phone, and there is no charge to the mobile customer for receiving the call. The mobile customer is...

In the authors' shared opinion, the economic evidence does not support the regulations proposed in the Commission's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Regarding Preserving the Open Internet and Broadband Industry Practices (the “NPRM”). To the contrary, the economic evidence provides no support...