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The Packets Must Get Through

From the book "The Consequences of Net Neutrality Regulations on Broadband Investment and Consumer Welfare"

November 19, 2009

Steven Titch

For all the talk about preserving a free and open Internet, network neutrality’s non-discrimination rule would do neither. As bandwidth consumption increases almost geometrically, today’s Internet needs commercial options that include prioritization, bandwidth optimization, applications partitioning and packet prioritization. If the Internet’s going to work, the packets must get through.

Trouble in 'Net Regulation Paradise

November 2, 2009, 2:28pm

Steven Titch

The Free Market, Not Government Net Neutrality Mandates, Will Best Serve Consumers

October 1, 2009, 7:29pm

Adam Summers

In the free market, competition ensures that customers receive the services they demand. Government control, by contrast, ensures that they receive whatever services the politicians and bureaucrats in power at the time deem appropriate.

Net Neutrality and Basic Freedoms

September 29, 2009, 4:42pm

Steven Titch

In an opinion piece on NPR.org, Scott Cleland, chairman of NetCompetition.org, gioves some succinct reasons why network neutrality, aside from inviting a cascade of unintended consequences, runs afoul of basic constitutional rights.

How Net Neutrality Regulation Will Hurt Consumers, Degrade the Internet, Stifle Voices and Kill Innovation

September 25, 2009, 1:48pm

Steven Titch

Since AT&T, Verizon and Comcast also would be prohibited from charging their biggest corporate bandwidth users for the costs they impose on the network, those costs can only be extracted from consumers in the form of higher rates or slower service.

FCC After Network Neutrality Again

September 22, 2009, 4:56pm

Adrian Moore

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