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Internet Pricing: The Next Policy Frontier, Daniel Lyons
Internet Pricing: The Next Policy Frontier, Daniel Lyons
Daniel Lyons
In the past few years, broadband providers have begun shifting toward tiered service plans (sometimes known as usage-based pricing) that offer customers a fixed amount of data each month for a fee. On average, less than 2 percent of users exceed the most commonly-used tier of 300 GB; nearly 80 percent of consumers never exceed even 50 GB per month. Nevertheless, some critics such as Public Knowledge and the New America Foundation are concerned that this trend may bring higher prices and reduced service. Most recently, NAF analyst Benjamin Lennett asked whether tiered service plans are a plot by cable …
Reforming The Universal Service Fund For The Digital Age, Daniel Lyons
Reforming The Universal Service Fund For The Digital Age, Daniel Lyons
Daniel Lyons
The marketplace and technological changes that have occurred since the last major revision of the Communications Act in 1996 have rendered existing law and policy woefully outdated, if not obsolete. In the past fifteen years there has been a switch from analog to digital services, from narrowband to broadband networks, and, most importantly, from a mostly monopolistic to a generally competitive environment. In Communications Law and Policy in the Digital Age: The Next Five Years, some of the nation's most eminent scholars explain why communications law and policy should be changed in response to these profound marketplace transitions. And, as …
Net Neutrality: Applying (And Expanding) Nondiscrimination Norms In Cyberspace, Daniel Lyons
Net Neutrality: Applying (And Expanding) Nondiscrimination Norms In Cyberspace, Daniel Lyons
Daniel Lyons
The article discusses the regulations to promote net neutrality in the broadband industry by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC. It focuses on the term unreasonable discrimination taken from Section 202 of the Communications Act that restricts telephone companies and telecommunications providers. Details on benefits offered by tiering approach such as a more intelligent Internet traffic management and greater competition among broadband providers are discussed.