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What is Network Neutrality

Encyclopedia of Mobile Phone Behavior
The principle that all users should have equal access to the Internet based on freedom of speech principles, and without regard to speed or content.
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Unleashing the Open Mobile Internet
Robert A. Penchuk (Atesa Legal LLC, USA)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8239-9.ch084
Abstract
Proponents of network neutrality seek to regulate the Internet to ensure equal access by all members of society. Conversely, those who favor network diversity argue that continued Internet development in a free market society necessitates price and service discrimination, without stifling regulation. An alternative proposal is provided to this seemingly intractable problem – a proposal leveraging the shift towards mobile Internet access, and enabled by recently reallocated white-space, due to the transition to Digital Television (DTV), and by developments in multi-mode and cognitive radio technology. The Federal Communications Commission has the mandate to implement ad-hoc mobile Internet access in a way that will ensure fair and balanced Internet access driven by competitive market forces rather than regulation.
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Technical and political characteristic of those networks not allowing resource discrimination on the basis of their destination, content, and the applicative class of technology to which they belong. Debate on network neutrality initiated in the United States following an increasingly incisive reprojection of networks by Internet service providers (ISP) and telecommunications providers. Opposing this project reformulating Internet architectures, first of all, are content providers who would be obliged to pay, together with users, on the base of gained visits, used bandwidth, and typologies of service delivered.
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