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Marsden, Christopher T. --- "Network neutrality: a research guide" [2013] ELECD 533; in Brown, Ian (ed), "Research Handbook on Governance of the Internet" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013) 419

Book Title: Research Handbook on Governance of the Internet

Editor(s): Brown, Ian

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849805025

Section: Chapter 17

Section Title: Network neutrality: a research guide

Author(s): Marsden, Christopher T.

Number of pages: 26

Abstract/Description:

Network neutrality is a growing policy controversy, which must be traced in its policy history, examined and defined, and its two elements separated: the present net neutrality ‘lite’ debate and the emerging net neutrality ‘heavy’ concerned with fibre access networks in future. In this guide, I explain its past, explore the legislation and regulation of its present, and explain that economics and human rights will both play a part in its future. There are net neutrality laws in the Netherlands, Chile and apparently Finland, regulation in the United States and Canada, coregulation in Norway, and self-regulation in Japan, the United Kingdom and many other European countries. It is a debate which has existed since at least 1999, and which will grow in importance as internet access matures and service quality increases with the demand on the network for more attractive fixed and mobile/wireless services.