Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Should Internet networks be content-neutral, and vice versa?

The debate is how to reformulate or expand this concept. With more than 98% of the country's network traffic made up of video, which broke the previous balance dominated by telcos. How are the agreements between operators and Netflix, Google, Paramount+ and Amazon, among other content providers?

The tensions caused by video streaming over telecommunications infrastructure upset the balance of net neutrality. The collaborative schemes that have so far characterized the Internet ecosystem are beginning to crumble because the balance of power between network owners and large content providers is dissimilar. In particular, smaller ISPs are less able to access Netflix, Google, Meta and others, and rarely manage to participate in revenue share models with these players.

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