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Peer Unreviewed: The business of ZeroRating
http://peerunreviewed.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-business-of-zerorating.html
A place where I talk about some of my academic research. Saturday, December 26, 2015. The business of ZeroRating. ZeroRating conversations are dominating Network Neutrality issues these days, whether it is the FreeBasics controversy. In India, Binge On. By T-Mobile, or Verizon's recent announcement. Of a plan similar to AT&T's sponsored data. Here are a few thoughts to consider about ZeroRating and why it makes no sense (to me). Charge the content provider a price above. Can come along, buy data in volum...
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Peer Unreviewed: How much competition is enough?
http://peerunreviewed.blogspot.com/2014/06/how-much-competition-is-enough.html
A place where I talk about some of my academic research. Wednesday, June 11, 2014. How much competition is enough? The topic of competition is a very interesting one and with layers and layers of complexity. While I firmly believe that the path to an Open Internet goes through building competition at the broadband level, and not. Through complex network neutrality regulations, the issue is not simple. The result has been a very open Internet. Isn't 2 providers competing the same as 4 providers competing?
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Peer Unreviewed: February 2014
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A place where I talk about some of my academic research. Monday, February 24, 2014. Why is Netflix paying Comcast? Our group has been researching and thinking about Internet Economics for quite sometime now. Events. Are backing up our predictions, and they are not good for consumers. Over 5 years ago,. We published the following work,. Driven by at that time a PhD student of ours,. Richard T.B. Ma, Dahming Chiu, John C.S. Lui, Vishal Misra and Dan Rubenstein. Things started to change when the Internet e-...
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Peer Unreviewed: The Public Option: Municipal Broadband Access
http://peerunreviewed.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-public-option-municipal-broadband.html
A place where I talk about some of my academic research. Sunday, February 16, 2014. The Public Option: Municipal Broadband Access. The recent announcement of the Comcast acquisition of Time Warner Cable. And, (b) the second and more important issue is not that of competition for cable service, which ostensibly Dish Networks also provides, but for Broadband access, where 19 of the top 20 metropolitan areas in the US will have only one. Choice for wired Broadband. Companies, but that of wired Broadband ISPs.
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Peer Unreviewed: October 2014
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A place where I talk about some of my academic research. Friday, October 17, 2014. We need an "AppleSim" for Wired Internet. Our work has long argued that competition. Is the key to an Open Internet, not Network Neutrality regulations. The introduction of AppleSim by Apple on their iPads is a very interesting and important development in that regard. As Apple says in their marketing literature. So whenever you need it, you can choose the plan that works best for you—with no long-term commitments. Like th...
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Peer Unreviewed: Our response to FCC's NPRM on Open Internet (14-28)
http://peerunreviewed.blogspot.com/2014/07/our-response-to-fccs-nprm-on-open.html
A place where I talk about some of my academic research. Sunday, July 13, 2014. Our response to FCC's NPRM on Open Internet (14-28). The following is the detailed response we have submitted to the FCC on it's NPRM 14-28 Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet. Aka Net Neutrality proposals). Response to the FCC NPRM on Open Internet prepared by Richard Ma ( tbma@comp.nus.edu.sg. And Vishal Misra ( misra@cs.columbia.edu. If it is not “open”, is the current Internet “closed”? Para 3: The no-blocking rule...
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Peer Unreviewed: June 2014
http://peerunreviewed.blogspot.com/2014_06_01_archive.html
A place where I talk about some of my academic research. Wednesday, June 11, 2014. How much competition is enough? The topic of competition is a very interesting one and with layers and layers of complexity. While I firmly believe that the path to an Open Internet goes through building competition at the broadband level, and not. Through complex network neutrality regulations, the issue is not simple. The result has been a very open Internet. Isn't 2 providers competing the same as 4 providers competing?
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Peer Unreviewed: We need an "AppleSim" for Wired Internet
http://peerunreviewed.blogspot.com/2014/10/we-need-applesim-for-wired-internet.html
A place where I talk about some of my academic research. Friday, October 17, 2014. We need an "AppleSim" for Wired Internet. Our work has long argued that competition. Is the key to an Open Internet, not Network Neutrality regulations. The introduction of AppleSim by Apple on their iPads is a very interesting and important development in that regard. As Apple says in their marketing literature. So whenever you need it, you can choose the plan that works best for you—with no long-term commitments. Like th...
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Peer Unreviewed: Half the equation and half the definition
http://peerunreviewed.blogspot.com/2015/12/what-is-definition-of-net-neutrality.html
A place where I talk about some of my academic research. Tuesday, December 29, 2015. Half the equation and half the definition. There is a lot of confusion over what constitutes Net Neutrality, so much so that parties fiercely on the opposite side of issues both claim to be for it. As an example, the current controversy over Free Basics has been between Facebook, whose CEO penned an Op-Ed entitled " Free Basics protects net neutrality. Folk Definition: All packets must be treated equally. QoS) as the det...
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