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Innovations In Mobile Broadband Pricing, Daniel Lyons
Innovations In Mobile Broadband Pricing, Daniel Lyons
Daniel Lyons
The FCC’s net neutrality rules sought to limit interference by broadband service providers in markets for Internet-based content and applications. But to do so, the Commission significantly reduced the amount of innovation possible in the broadband service market. Within limits, broadband providers may offer different plans that vary the quantity of service available to customers, as well as the quality of that service. But they generally cannot vary the service itself: with limited exceptions, broadband providers must offer customers access to all lawful Internet traffic, or none at all.
This Article explores the way in which this all-or-nothing homogenization of the American broadband product differs from innovative experiments taking …