Net neutrality is as abbreviated form of Network Neutrality. As net neutrality is mainly concerned to internet, it is also known as internet neutrality. It is one of the important principle that affects internet users by various means how they access internet and what they access and at what speed they will receive various contents over internet.
What is Net neutrality?
Net neutrality is the term used to describe networks that are open to equal access to all. They are non-discriminatory as they do not favor any one destination or application over another. Net neutrality means that the internet service providers and telecommunication providers do not discriminate against rivals or individuals by charging deferentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, and modes of communication.
Net neutrality can be said that it is another way of referring "Open Internet" principles. The open internet is the internet as we know it, where consumers can make their own choices about what applications and services to use, and where consumers are free to decide what content they want to access, create, or share with others.
Net neutrality adopts open internet principles as described below in brief:
1. Transparency: Broadband providers must disclose information regarding their network management practices, performance, and the commercial terms of their broadband services.
2. No Blocking: Fixed broadband (such as DSL, cable modem or fixed wireless providers) providers may not block lawful content, applications, services or non-harmful devices. Mobile broadband providers may not block lawful websites, or applications that compete with their voice or video telephony services.
3. No Discrimination: Fixed broadband providers may not discriminate in transmitting lawful network traffic over a consumer’s broadband Internet access service.
In late 2010, the Open Internet principles were adopted by the FCC (Federal Communications Commission). In 2011 after the FCC's rules were published and set into action, Verizon Communications challenged those rules in court, arguing that the FCC had no authority from Congress to impose such rules and that the rules prevent its First Amendment rights and won the case when the federal Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled in a 2-1 decision that even though the FCC has the authority to regulate broadband access, it based these rules on a flawed legal argument.
What is Net neutrality?
Net neutrality is the term used to describe networks that are open to equal access to all. They are non-discriminatory as they do not favor any one destination or application over another. Net neutrality means that the internet service providers and telecommunication providers do not discriminate against rivals or individuals by charging deferentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, and modes of communication.
Net neutrality adopts open internet principles as described below in brief:
1. Transparency: Broadband providers must disclose information regarding their network management practices, performance, and the commercial terms of their broadband services.
2. No Blocking: Fixed broadband (such as DSL, cable modem or fixed wireless providers) providers may not block lawful content, applications, services or non-harmful devices. Mobile broadband providers may not block lawful websites, or applications that compete with their voice or video telephony services.
3. No Discrimination: Fixed broadband providers may not discriminate in transmitting lawful network traffic over a consumer’s broadband Internet access service.
In late 2010, the Open Internet principles were adopted by the FCC (Federal Communications Commission). In 2011 after the FCC's rules were published and set into action, Verizon Communications challenged those rules in court, arguing that the FCC had no authority from Congress to impose such rules and that the rules prevent its First Amendment rights and won the case when the federal Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled in a 2-1 decision that even though the FCC has the authority to regulate broadband access, it based these rules on a flawed legal argument.
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