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Home >  Events >  The Debate Over Network Management: An Economic Perspective
The Debate Over Network Management: An Economic Perspective
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AEI Center for Regulatory and Market Studies
Start:  Wednesday, April 2, 2008  9:00 AM
End:  Wednesday, April 2, 2008  1:45 PM
Location:  Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
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High speed internet service providers are coming under increasing scrutiny because of their business practices in managing the terms of use of their networks. One key issue is whether they should be allowed to charge content providers for a higher quality of service to support certain applications like video games. A related issue is whether network managers should have the discretion to exclude or degrade specific applications used by customers to improve network performance. These issues arise not only in wireline networks, such as DSL and cable, but also in wireless networks, such as those used to support smart phones. The Federal Communications Commission has released a policy statement promoting open access to the Internet. The policy makes an exception for “reasonable” network management but does not define what is meant by reasonable. Speakers at this conference will examine the economic costs and benefits of imposing regulatory constraints on the management of high speed internet networks.

8:45 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast
 
 
 
 
9:00
Welcome:
Robert  Hahn, Reg-Markets Center
 
 
 
9:15 
Panel I:
Management of Wireline Networks 
 
 
 
 
Panelists:
Robert Crandall, Brookings Institution
 
 
Jonathan Nuechterlein, WilmerHale
 
 
Jon Peha, Carnegie Mellon University
 
 
 
 
 
 
10:45
Panel II:
Management of Wireless Networks
 
 
 
 
Presenters:
Michael Calabrese, New America Foundation
 
 
Hal Singer, Criterion Economics
 
 
Christopher Yoo, University of Pennsylvania
 
Moderator:
Harold Furchtgott-Roth, Furchtgott-Roth Enterprises
 
 
 
12:00 p.m.
Luncheon
 
 
 
 
 
Speaker:
Thomas Hazlett, George Mason University 
 
 
 
1:45 
Adjournment
 

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Molly Wells
American Enterprise Institute
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Phone: 202-862-5903
E-mail: mwells@aei.org

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American Enterprise Institute
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Washington, DC  20036
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