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> If there is 'a lot of competition' - it makes cartel-like or colluding behaviour among carriers difficult, thereby facilitating de-facto net-neutrality. Can you explain this further? I struggle to see how you get from "a lot of competition" to "de-facto net neutrality", and how that would continue indefinitely. It seems to me that we had de-facto net neutrality from the outset but that over time, as the industry ma…
Because it would be very difficult for carriers to co-opt entities like Netflix into nonstandard schemes if there were a lot of competition. You hinted at it in your comment: "the large players started to talk about colluding" Only a when there are a 'small number of large players' is this kind of collusion possible. When there is a lot of competition, the entire layer of the value chain becomes weaker. It's a proble…
Re: Victory for Net Neutrality in Europe
#181In my (limited) understanding of economics, all industries coalesce from numerous small players into a small number of big players.