CHANGING THE RULES: UNIVERSAL SERVICE, QUALITY CAPS AND NET NEUTRALITY
Emilio Carrera Felix  1@  
1 : Centre de Recherches en Economie et Droit  (CRED)  -  Website
Université Paris II - Panthéon-Assas

Under the last considerations of network neutrality presented by United States and European Union regulation authorities, the involvement of content providers in the universal service programs is not stablished. A regulated Internet contract with a free or very small economic participation by users to access into a limited bandwidth version of the Internet service and content providers financing their participation to broadcast their high bandwidth content to increase the bandwidth could by a solution for this issue. We study a minimum quality of a service as a strategy of public policy over a broadband telecommunication services to create better absorption of technological benefits as a welfare measure for the users. As results we show a positive effect to propose universal service by quality as complement of universal service obligation, the conditions to determine the prices have to be ruled ex-ante by authorities and finally the best market scenario for welfare superior is determined by competition.

 


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