Is access competition enough to ensure Net Neutrality?

In an opinion piece published recently, The Economist argues that the Net Neutrality problem is really a competition problem. I have argued the same in the past. On paper, the argument makes sense.

If there is no underlying cost

TPG Telecom’s FTTB play a headache for Turnbull

See on Scoop.it – Connected World

Although obviously very unhappy with the broadband monopoly created by the previous government, Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull – as its shareholder minister – also has to protect the interests of NBN Co.

Benoit Felten

Online Service Providers Discover the Real World

I've been meaning to write about this for a while. The coverage of a number of recent legal "happenings" around online service providers has puzzled me and I wanted to weigh in on perhaps an opposite direction.

In the connectivity

The trouble with ducts and poles

I have written in the past about passive infrastructure remedies to competition. Portugal is one country where such remedies seem to have had positive effects on the market. Applying similar remedies in the UK was a big part of the

Competition Works!

Seen from the outside, the lack of effective competition in the US telecom market is evident, and yet incumbents and their lobbyists regularly do all they can to argue that the US market is competitive. They might occasionally agree that

Broadband drives Economic Growth… in some ways

Giga Om's Stacey Higginbotham wrote a really interesting article yesterday (Broadband Boosts Economic Development… To A Point) on a study undertaken by the Public Policy Institute of California. I'll let you read the article (and the study if