This paper analyzes two business practices on the mobile internet market, paid prioritization and zero-rating. Both … violate the principle of net neutrality by allowing the internet service provider to discriminate different content types. In … prioritization when traffic is highly valuable for content providers and congestion is severe, and zero-rating in all other cases …

Under strict net neutrality Internet service providers (ISPs) are required to carry data without any differentiation … neutrality rules. Content differs in its sensitivity to delay. Content providers can use congestion control techniques to reduce …

investment incentives due to the increased demand for priority services by the entry of new congestion sensitive content … providers. Which network regime is the most efficient depends on the distribution of congestion sensitivity among content …

We consider internet service providers' incentives to zero-rate, i.e. do not count towards data allowances, the …

This paper analyzes two business practices on the mobile internet market, paid prioritization and zero-rating. Both … violate the principle of net neutrality by allowing the internet service provider to discriminate different content types. In … prioritization when traffic is highly valuable for content providers and congestion is severe, and zero-rating in all other cases …