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De-Regulation As The New Regulation: Telecom's Philosophy Turnabout And The Story Of A Forward-Looking Formula That Brought Back Competition , Christia Crocker Apr 2013

De-Regulation As The New Regulation: Telecom's Philosophy Turnabout And The Story Of A Forward-Looking Formula That Brought Back Competition , Christia Crocker

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

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It's A Series Of Tubes: Network Neutrality In The United States And How The Current Economic Environment Presents A Unique Opportunity To Invest In The Future Of The Internet , Andrew Seitz Apr 2013

It's A Series Of Tubes: Network Neutrality In The United States And How The Current Economic Environment Presents A Unique Opportunity To Invest In The Future Of The Internet , Andrew Seitz

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

It is almost an accident that the Internet developed the way it did. In the late 1990's large internet service providers (ISPs), such as AOL, that had their own proprietary networks failed to fully realize that their business model was becoming obsolete, and instead the Internet developed into the open network that it is today. But is an open network the best model for the Internet? Could more of a free market deliver a better product to the consumer? Broadband providers such as AT&T and Verizon believe that in order to give their customers the best product, they should be …