5.1: What Is Net Neutrality?
5.0 Net Neutrality
5.1 What is net neutrality?
Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers and governments regulating the Internet should treat all data on the Internet the same, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication.
The term was coined by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in 2003, as an extension of the longstanding concept of a common carrier, which was used to describe the role of telephone systems. Just as your phone company shouldn’t decide who you call and what you say on that call, your ISP shouldn’t interfere with the content you view or post online. A widely-cited example of a violation …show more content…
Cable companies will plan to reserve bandwidth for their own television services, and charge companies a toll for priority service; allowing for preferential treatment of Internet traffic, or tiered service, would put newer online companies at a disadvantage and slow innovation in online services. Net Neutrality is crucial for small business owners, start-ups and entrepreneurs, who rely on the open internet to launch their businesses, create markets, advertise their products and services, and reach customers. We need the open internet to foster job growth, competition and innovation. Net Neutrality lowers the barriers of entry by preserving the internet’s fair and level playing field. It’s because of Net Neutrality that small businesses and entrepreneurs have been able to thrive …show more content…
This has led to unequal treatment in terms of net connection, subscription fee or charges, traffic discrimination and so on. Until to date, the users are still facing the same problems and this continuously happen if is not taken. Crystal clear that our country has been focusing on implementing the principle of the net neutrality in monitoring the internet service provider’s long time ago. Nevertheless, the concept of net neutrality law is considered to be new area especially in Malaysia. Multimedia Commission (“Commission”) that promotes the right of internet users.
Not only that, the mechanism on how the network traffic should be regulated is also being left hanging. Moreover, there is no single debate or article on the net neutrality principle to be codified as a regulation in Malaysia even though the net neutrality was quoted by our former Deputy Information Communication and
5.1 What is net neutrality?
Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers and governments regulating the Internet should treat all data on the Internet the same, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication.
The term was coined by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in 2003, as an extension of the longstanding concept of a common carrier, which was used to describe the role of telephone systems. Just as your phone company shouldn’t decide who you call and what you say on that call, your ISP shouldn’t interfere with the content you view or post online. A widely-cited example of a violation …show more content…
Cable companies will plan to reserve bandwidth for their own television services, and charge companies a toll for priority service; allowing for preferential treatment of Internet traffic, or tiered service, would put newer online companies at a disadvantage and slow innovation in online services. Net Neutrality is crucial for small business owners, start-ups and entrepreneurs, who rely on the open internet to launch their businesses, create markets, advertise their products and services, and reach customers. We need the open internet to foster job growth, competition and innovation. Net Neutrality lowers the barriers of entry by preserving the internet’s fair and level playing field. It’s because of Net Neutrality that small businesses and entrepreneurs have been able to thrive …show more content…
This has led to unequal treatment in terms of net connection, subscription fee or charges, traffic discrimination and so on. Until to date, the users are still facing the same problems and this continuously happen if is not taken. Crystal clear that our country has been focusing on implementing the principle of the net neutrality in monitoring the internet service provider’s long time ago. Nevertheless, the concept of net neutrality law is considered to be new area especially in Malaysia. Multimedia Commission (“Commission”) that promotes the right of internet users.
Not only that, the mechanism on how the network traffic should be regulated is also being left hanging. Moreover, there is no single debate or article on the net neutrality principle to be codified as a regulation in Malaysia even though the net neutrality was quoted by our former Deputy Information Communication and