The Toll Roads? The Legal and Political Debate over Net Neutrality
San Francisco, California
26 January 2008
Hosted By: The University of San Francisco Intellectual Property Law Bulletin
The University of San Francisco Intellectual Property Law Bulletin hosted this symposium on 26 January 2008 to explore the current debate over the principle of net neutrality, which refers to free access to the Internet without discrimination based upon how often users access the Internet or how much broadband capacity they utilize. NERA Special Consultant Dr. William Taylor participated in a panel discussion on the economics of net neutrality. The panelists focused on the cost to broadband providers of services such as YouTube, proposals for cost-shifting, and the effect that "access tiering" -- a system in which websites that pay for quality of service receive network bandwidth priority -- would have on users.
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