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Market driven network neutrality and the fallacies of Internet traffic quality regulation

In the U.S. paying for priority arrangements between Internet access service providers and Internet application providers to favor some traffic over other traf-fic is considered unreasonable discrimination. In Europe the focus is on mini-mum traffic quality requirements. It can be shown that neither market power nor universal service arguments can justify traffic quality regulation. In particular, heterogeneous demand for traffic quality for delay sensitive versus delay insen-sitive applications requires traffic quality differentiation, priority pricing and evolutionary development of minimal traffic qualities.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Diskussionsbeitrag ; No. 136

Classification
Wirtschaft

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Knieps, Günter
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Institut für Verkehrswissenschaft und Regionalpolitik
(where)
Freiburg i. Br.
(when)
2011

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Knieps, Günter
  • Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Institut für Verkehrswissenschaft und Regionalpolitik

Time of origin

  • 2011

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