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Be careful what you wish for


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APNIC's Chief Scientist, Geoff Huston, joins PING for his monthly chat, to warn the service provider industry about pressuring regulators to make content providers pay to use their networks; a situation currently playing out in Korea as we chatted about in Episode 13.


Korea v. Content Provider: When the customer isn’t always right


As he outlines in his recent post, Geoff forecasts the consequences of turning our backs on net neutrality which could jeopardize service providers' current hold on the provision market and Internet users’ access to sites like Netflix and YouTube, increase the centrality of the Internet and in some cases compromise the security of certain economies communication infrastructure.

Read more about net neutrality and centralization on the Internet on the APNIC Blog:

  • Sender pays
  • Content vs carriage — who pays?
  • Opinion: Is big necessarily bad?
  • 13 propositions on an Internet for a burning world (1-4)


The views expressed by the featured speakers are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of APNIC.

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