Online Learning Update

February 1, 2014

Around the World, Net Neutrality Is Not a Reality

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:02 am

by David Talbot, Technology Review

Pro-neutrality types have worried that a few giant companies will end up controlling, or at least mediating, the Internet experience for much of the population because of special deals they’ve struck with Internet providers for prioritized or subsidized data delivery. But in the emerging economies of the world, that’s pretty much how things already work, thanks to a growing number of deals Google and Facebook have struck with mobile phone carriers from the Philippines to Kenya.

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/523736/around-the-world-net-neutrality-is-not-a-reality/

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