By David Talbot, Technology Review
The Internet has thrived without international oversight. Now a UN agency could try to assert more control. A United Nations agency opens debate on Monday over whether it should begin to regulate the Internet. The most hotly contested proposals come from European telecommunications providers and African and Arab countries that want big content providers to pay to send data across their networks. The concept—known as “sender pays”—would radically alter today’s Internet economics. Some countries say their networks are groaning under video and other content provided in large part by U.S. companies such as Facebook, Netflix, and Google. These countries suggest that fees on content providers would help defray local infrastructure costs.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/507906/a-budding-war-over-internet-economics/
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