Case Study The Battle Over Net Neutrality

INTRODUCTION 

1) A SCENARIO

• Remy Ishak is a student at a local community college. Because he works full time, he takes many of her courses online, which provides the flexibility he needs in her schedule.
• For several semesters, this arrangement works well he accesses the course resources online, including bandwidth materials such as videos of recorded lectures and learning exercises that require the transfer of large files.
• In his fourth semester, though, he begins to notice a slowdown of her  Internet access when he is working with content from the college. Videos don’t stream reliably, and some actions time out before  can be completed.
• Company informed the institution that due to growing consumer demand for  bandwidth-intensive content—such as online video games and streaming HD television and movies—it would begin charging more for transmitting this kind of material.
• When Remy complains to the cable company, they inform her that there are no regulations requiring broadband providers to transmit all content at the  same speed and that the company is legally allowed to charge content providers a different rate for full speed service of their material

2 ) 7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT NET NEUTRALITY

                                                                                  

 1. What is it?

Net neutrality the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data, not discriminating or charging differential by user. (will be answer in Q1)

2. How does it work?

Comcast v. FCC case appears to confirm this

3. Whose doing it?

Supporters of enforceable net neutrality rules include many higher education associations

(EDUCAUSE among them), library and research organizations, public interest groups (such as  Common Cause), and content companies including Amazon.com,EBay, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Facebook, Skype, and Yahoo.( Will beanswer in Q3)

4. Why is it significant?

Because the Internet has become such a critical communications infrastructure ( Will be answer in Q3)

5. What are the downsides?

Who support and opposed (will discuss in question 2)

6. Where is it going?

Currently the federal government and the private sector are investigating several avenues to resolve this debate.

7. What are the implications for higher education?

Special interest in guaranteeing research, collaboration, distance.

3) IMPACT OF NET NEUTRALITY

·         Equal access to customers                                  

·         Increasing of cost for internet provider             

Question 1 : What is network neutrality?

·         Net neutrality (also network neutrality or Internet neutrality) is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet equally, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, and modes of communication.

·         The term was coined by Columbia media law professor Tim Wu in 2003 as

·         an extension of the longstanding concept of a common carrier

- Proponents often see net neutrality as an important component of an open internet, where policies such as equal treatment of data and open web standards allow those on the internet to easily communicate and conduct business without interference from a third party

Question  1 : Why has the internet operated under net neutrality up to this point in

time?

Because

The Internet has become such a critical communications infrastructure, the ability for a network operator to decide what information is allowed to pass freely and quickly, or slowly or not at all, runs counter to the well-established tradition of acceptable common carrier behavior.

Many see this as a direct threat to our economy, our politics, our educational and healthcare systems , our security, and our basic values and freedoms. While all parties appear to agree that openness is good, they disagree strongly about the degree to which we need to guarantee it by law.

QUESTION 2 : Who is favor of net neutrality? Who is opposed, Why?

WHO IS FAVOR OF NET NEUTRALITY?

For those who support strong, enforceable net neutrality rules, the current legal environment is untenable

  

WHY?

Because every infraction has to be recognized and challenged on an individual basis. Infractions can easily go unnoticed until real harm has occurred, and even when they are revealed, it is not clear whether any federal agency has the authority to act.

Court settlements are costly and can take years to resolve; because of the speed with which the Internet economy evolves, most supporters of net neutrality believe that the current legal system is not equipped to deal with these issues.

  

WHO IS OPPOSED?

Those who oppose new net neutrality regulations such as internet services provider

WHY?

Because they would limit the investment needed to deploy and improve broadband networks. Network development iscapital-intensive and is almost exclusively accomplished through private investment. Many broadband service providers feel that the current system—despite the recent Comcast ruling—remains sufficient and that both the FCC and the Federal Trade Commission have the authority to resolve these issues. Opponents of new regulations believe that the issues that have come up since 2005 have been dealt with properly and argue that there is no reason to believe there will be any increase in these types of activity.

QUESTION 3 : What would be the impact on individual user, businesses, and government of internet providers switched to a tiered service model? 

·       Tiered service structures allow users to select from a small set of tiers at progressively increasing price points to receive the product or products best suited to their needs.

·   Such systems are frequently seen in the telecommunications field, specifically when it comes to wireless service, digital and cable television options, and broadband internet access.

·        When a wireless company, for example, charges customers different amounts based on the number of voice minutes, text messages, and other features they desire, the company is utilizing the principle of tiered service.

·         This is also seen in charging different prices for services such as the speed of one's internet connection and the number of cable television channels one has access to. 

INDIVIDUAL USER

Tiered service helps to keep quality of service standards for high profile applications like streaming video or VoIP. This comes at a cost of increasing costs for better service levels

BUSINESSES

·         Internet provider company – will decrees their cost

·         The business – increase the effectiveness and efficiency

·         “ pay more for the better services”

·         Especially for the international company.

GOVERNMENT

·    Government regulation

·   Government can control the people that freely express their ideas in a forum as open and egalitarian as possible. 

4).Are you in favor of legislation network neutrality? 

Yes, we are support of legislation network neutrality.

Why?

 As a student same with REMY ISHAK (the example of scenario ) we are face the cost constrain in getting the information from internet for our assignment. So, the internet neutrality will law will help us to get the all information without pay any fee.

CONCLUSION

Those have several impact of implement of law in net neutrality. It depends on parties that involve in this issues.