One of the striking realizations of my Analyst career was when I found out that very often companies in the broadband ecosystem defend, or even lobby for positions that they assume to be in their interest for ideological reasons,
There’s no economic imperative to reconsider an open Internet
Arguments suggesting that the economic viability of the Internet is unsustainable without the Online Service Providers paying the Internet Service Providers for traffic are not new. In 2011 Diffraction Analysis published a report entitled ‘Net Discrimination Won’t Buy
A slap in the face of Net Discrimination lobbyists
In the wake of AT Kearney's infamous report A Viable Future Model for the Internet, many analysts, journalists and activists pointed out the terrible flaws in this paper. I myself blogged about it a number of times, to point
Net discrimination won’t buy you next-generation access
A number of highly visible telcos are pushing policy makers to adopt net discrimination rules so that they can earn revenue from content providers using their networks to deliver content to end users. Otherwise, they say, they won’t be able
How Net Discrimination Works (Or Doesn’t Work…)
I'm increasingly puzzled by the net discrimination stance that a number of European Incumbents have started to push forward in the last few months despite mounting evidence that the "alternative business model for the internet" that they are pushing forward
The Slow Suicide of Net Discrimination
The whole net neutrality debate is heating up again, both in Europe and the US. As usual, the positions are quite clear: application and content providers generally support a truly neutral internet ecosystem, network operators support an ecosystem where discrimination