Price discrimination – the Commission’s plan B to undermine net neutrality?

By Joe McNamee

The European Commission is energetically defending the “right” of telecoms operators to use price discrimination, arguing that this is not a breach of net neutrality.

In price discrimination, the telecoms company establishes itself as a monopoly “gatekeeper” of access to its own customers. In other words, big online companies like Google and Facebook can pay to have their services accessible “for free”, while other services are paid for per megabyte or gigabyte downloaded.

In other forms of non-neutrality, the telecoms company establishes itself as a monopoly “gatekeeper” of access to its own customers. That means that big online companies like Google and Facebook can pay for preferential treatment for its services, while others are excluded due to blocking or throttling of their services.

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