Comments on: Tollbooths on the Internet Highway? http://techliberation.com/2006/02/21/tollbooths-on-the-internet-highway/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Fri, 25 May 2012 08:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ed Felten http://techliberation.com/2006/02/21/tollbooths-on-the-internet-highway/comment-page-1/#comment-32778 Ed Felten Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:33:47 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/02/21/tollbooths-on-the-internet-highway/#comment-32778 <p>Competition is the best way to solve this problem. But the difficult issue is whether we can have a truly competitive market. Competition is good for many reasons; but can it really be achieved by pulling the available public policy levers?</p> <p>My sense is that the smarter advocates of net neutrality regulation support pro-competition policies but think those policies will have only limited success. They see regulation as a second best solution that will become necessary if, as they expect, the market is not competitive.</p> Competition is the best way to solve this problem. But the difficult issue is whether we can have a truly competitive market. Competition is good for many reasons; but can it really be achieved by pulling the available public policy levers?

My sense is that the smarter advocates of net neutrality regulation support pro-competition policies but think those policies will have only limited success. They see regulation as a second best solution that will become necessary if, as they expect, the market is not competitive.

]]> By: Ed Felten http://techliberation.com/2006/02/21/tollbooths-on-the-internet-highway/comment-page-1/#comment-46283 Ed Felten Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:33:47 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/02/21/tollbooths-on-the-internet-highway/#comment-46283 <p>Competition is the best way to solve this problem. But the difficult issue is whether we can have a truly competitive market. Competition is good for many reasons; but can it really be achieved by pulling the available public policy levers?<br><br>My sense is that the smarter advocates of net neutrality regulation support pro-competition policies but think those policies will have only limited success. They see regulation as a second best solution that will become necessary if, as they expect, the market is not competitive.</p> Competition is the best way to solve this problem. But the difficult issue is whether we can have a truly competitive market. Competition is good for many reasons; but can it really be achieved by pulling the available public policy levers?

My sense is that the smarter advocates of net neutrality regulation support pro-competition policies but think those policies will have only limited success. They see regulation as a second best solution that will become necessary if, as they expect, the market is not competitive.

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