Sidak & Teece Debunk Net Neutrality Regulation

    


    
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<p>WASHINGTON, <span class="xn-chron">Dec. 21, 2010</span> /CNW/ -- The economic reasoning underlying network neutrality regulation expected to be adopted this week by the Federal Communications Commission is fundamentally flawed, according to Professors J. Gregory Sidak and David J. Teece. In an article in the Journal of Competition Law & Economics, published by the Oxford University Press, Sidak and Teece explain that the FCC's proposed regulations would have the effect  of banning or restricting optional business-to-business transactions between broadband Internet service providers (ISPs) and content providers for enhanced delivery of packets over the Internet. The proposed "nondiscrimination" rule would have the ironic effect of actively discriminating against any kind of content or application that is differentiated by its need for greater assurance of higher quality transmission across the Internet (known as quality of service, or QoS) than undifferentiated best-effort delivery can offer. This result not only would reduce static efficiency by encouraging higher consumer prices, but also would reduce dynamic efficiency by retarding innovation.</p>
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<p>J. Gregory Sidak is the chairman of Criterion Economics, L.L.C. in Washington, D.C. and the Ronald Coase Professor of Law and Economics at Tilburg University (TILEC) in The <span class="xn-location">Netherlands</span>.</p>
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<p>David J. Teece is the chairman and Principal Executive Officer of the Berkeley Research Group LLC  and the Thomas W. Tusher Professor in Global Business at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.</p>
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<p>Both are internationally recognized experts on antitrust, intellectual property, regulation of network industries, and complex economic litigation.</p>
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