Due to nature of my day to day work i encountered this term many, many times. For all of you who wants a quick refresher on the subject pls visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality.
The main concept is – keep the internet unregulated – no blocking, no shaping, no fiddling with traffic in any way and as fast as possible. My personal opinion is that the truth is somewhere in between, as there is a struggle between content providers (Google, Yahoo, etc..) and network providers (BT, AT&T, Orange, etc…) for the customers money. In case that content providers take the edge we are possibly facing drop in quality of access connection, as we know that a lot of technology fundamental research are funded by hardware companies (Cisco, Juniper, Erikson), and of course this hardware is bought by access providers (or Networking Service Providers) – kind of magic circle. In case that access providers take the edge we are facing once again possibility of having more expensive network access with limited content which is not good either.
This is especially true for Mobile Internet Data providers where internet access is much more expensive (because of the cost of the equipment), and its not that easy to provide unlimited data plans for bulk of people.
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