Re: the confusion about net neutrality

The point I am making, Suresh, is that if you were to spend money on
speeding up access, instead of trying to prioritize, you would be spending
money in a way that makes people happy -- the packets you wished to
prioritize go faster too, of course. If you spend your money instead on
prioritization, which requires your software to examine each packet, that
slows everything down -- very likely also the packets you are trying to
prioritize!

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 7:56 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> Please approach this from a competition policy perspective on last mile
> access rather than packet prioritisation
>

The point I am making, is indeed from a technical standpoint. Of course the
marketing people would like to be able to blackmail people, telling Ola
that if you pay more, Uber will be a lot slower than you. What they won't
tell you, is that in the process Ola gets slower too, but that Uber gets a
lot slower. But the technical argument ultimately wins. People have tried
to break net neutrality before, I believe that it hasn't worked.

Competition policies are "policies intended to prevent collusion
<http://www.investorwords.com/942/collusion.html> among firms
<http://www.investorwords.com/1967/firm.html> and to prevent individual
firms from having excessive
<http://www.investorwords.com/9619/excessive.html> market power
<http://www.investorwords.com/17683/market_power.html>. Major
<http://www.investorwords.com/10253/major.html> forms
<http://www.investorwords.com/13345/form.html> include
<http://www.investorwords.com/9996/include.html> oversight of mergers
<http://www.investorwords.com/3045/merger.html> and prevention of price
fixing <http://www.investorwords.com/3813/price_fixing.html> and market
<http://www.investorwords.com/2962/market.html> sharing. Called "anti-trust
<http://www.investorwords.com/8836/anti_trust.html> policy" in the U.S."

To me it would seem that competition policies are entirely compatible with
net neutrality. Indeed, if a company violates net neutrality, I would look
carefully to see if they in the process violated anti-trust laws.

Arun Mehta

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