In the recent Restoring Internet Freedom order, the Federal Communications Commission, led by Chairman Ajit Pai, voted to repeal the Obama administration’s network neutrality rules and restore the historical classification of broadband Internet as a lightly-regulated information service. A fierce public debate has emerged on the rulemaking’s implications for investment, innovation, competition, and consumer access to online content. In predicting the future Internet landscape, advocates on both sides have focused on the experiences of foreign jurisdictions in regulating both ISPs and edge providers, and how sanctions on content prioritization have affected consumers abroad.
This Teleforum features a distinguished panel with expertise in European, African, Asian, Latin American, and Canadian telecommunications law, and considers lessons from foreign regulators’ attempts to police the Internet ecosystem.
Featuring:
Professor Eli Noam, Paul Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility, Columbia Business School
Professor Roslyn Layton, PhD Fellow for the Center for Communication, Media and Information Studies at Aalborg University and Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute
Paul Beaudry, Professor, Lawyer and Research Associate, Montreal Economic Institute


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