Openwave's John Giere spells out the pros and cons of mobile new hot topic.
Net neutrality is one of the biggest topics for discussion at the moment – especially after the "internet treaty" proposal presented at the Internet Governance Forum earlier this month. If enacted, this would mean that all internet traffic is treated equally by law.
The principle of net neutrality aims to protect the open and interconnected nature of the public internet. Sound simple enough. But when you apply this principle to mobile networks and their unique bandwidth economics, the devil is in the detail.
For a start, not all packets are equal. Voice and video, for example, require much higher levels of network resourcing and quality-of-service software support than email.
So any consensus on net neutrality must start with the understanding that only content and services of the same type should be treated equally.
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