An examination of Network Neutrality from Scott Cleland, Chairman, NetCompetition.org; Founder & President, Precursor, LLC.

Summary: Net neutrality is the most important techcom policy issue for investors, policymakers and consumers to understand for the rest of the decade. It’s a grand clash between dueling visions of how the Internet and the broadband economy should best evolve going forward. For consumers and policymakers, it is about which policy approach is best to achieve a full access, competitive, and innovative Internet? For technologists, it’s a network design debate: should government mandate a neutral end-to-end network design, or should competition drive network design? For techcom investors, it is about which business models will be free to innovate, differentiate, grow and capture value?

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