[discuss] [ISOC_KE] Has the battle for Net Neutrality already been lost?

[Joly MacFie]

Recommended reading:

http://www.jacobrosenberg.com/2014/02/24/cdn-games/

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:
> Listers
>
> Apologies for cross posting.
>
> With the caving in of Netflix to Comcast's 'bullying' is the debate for Net
> Neutrality become irrelevant?
>
> Have market forces rendered this very emotive issue irrelevant?
>
> Is the action by Comcast Anti-Competitive?
>
> Why aren't the authorities in the US (the so called beacon for Net
> Neutrality) not doing anything about it?
>
> For the past two decades, the Internet has operated as an unregulated,
> competitive free market. Given the tendency of networked industries to lapse
> into monopoly--think of AT&T's 70-year hold over telephone service, for
> example--that's a minor miracle. But recent developments are putting the
> Internet's decentralized architecture in danger.
>
> In recent months, the nation's largest residential Internet service
> providers have been demanding payment to deliver Netflix traffic to their
> own customers. On Sunday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Netflix has
> agreed to the demands of the nation's largest broadband provider, Comcast.
> The change represents a fundamental shift in power in the Internet economy
> that threatens to undermine the competitive market structure that have
> served Internet users so well for the past two decades.
>
> Read on:-
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/02/23/comcasts-deal-with-netflix-makes-network-neutrality-obsolete/
> Ali Hussein
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