CHANGING THE RULES: UNIVERSAL SERVICE, QUALITY CAPS AND NET NEUTRALITY
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.