The Debate on Net Neutrality: A Policy Perspective
Information Systems Research
Application neutrality and a paradox of side payments
Proceedings of the Re-Architecting the Internet Workshop
Network non-neutrality debate: an economic analysis
NETWORKING'11 Proceedings of the 10th international IFIP TC 6 conference on Networking - Volume Part II
Competition in access to content
IFIP'12 Proceedings of the 11th international IFIP TC 6 conference on Networking - Volume Part II
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Hahn and Wallsten [1] wrote that network neutrality "usually means that broadband service providers charge consumers only once for Internet access, do not favor one content provider over another, and do not charge content providers for sending information over broadband lines to end users." We study the implications of non-neutral behaviors under a simple model of linear demand-response to usage-based prices. We take into account advertising revenues for the content provider and consider both cooperative and non-cooperative scenarios. We show that by adding the option for one provider to determine the amount of side payment from the other provider, not only do the content provider and the internaut suffer, but also the Access Provider's performance degrades.