20 Years Later, Concept of Net Neutrality May No Longer Be Relevant: AEI
As net neutrality celebrated its 20th birthday, the concept, first proposed by Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu in a 2003 paper, may no longer be relevant, American Enterprise Institute experts blogged Thursday. The internet today “is very different from…
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that in 2003,” wrote Bronwyn Howell, AEI nonresident senior fellow, and Petrus Potgieter, professor in the Department of Decision Sciences at the University of South Africa. “Most significantly, the application base has changed from when ISPs alone monetized internet traffic flows (Phase I),” they wrote: “We are now in Phase III where the bulk of the traffic is of subscription content, for which the end-user pays the content provider (for example, Netflix) directly. The ISP delivers traffic to the end-user, the value of which (to the end-user) the ISP cannot fully capture since the end-user has already paid the content provider.” In 2023, traffic volumes are “enormous and growing at a swift rate through increased time spent in front of a networked screen and steadily higher resolution and quality of content,” they said.