Question

list stakeholders involve in net neutrality and explain how.

Answer 1

There is no doubt that net neutrality is a complex topic and is on the agenda of the telecom regulators around the world.

Net neutrality emerged before the broadband era. Today’s internet is marked by exploding traffic on wireline and wireless networks and a shift in the balance of power from broadband providers to those who dominate service provision. Over the top players (OTT) such as Google, Facebook, Netflix , Skype, Apple, Microsoft have blurred the lines about the providers of data, voice, and video, and have captured regulatory attention. As telecom revenues are declining globally and governments want more broadband infrastructure investment, the economic and political arguments of the debate are evolving. Furthermore given costs and looming regulation, various parties are finding their own traffic management solutions, which depart from the archetypes which formed the original net neutrality arguments.

Or in simple terms Net neutrality is the principle that governments should mandate Internet service providers to treat all data on the Internet the same, and not discriminate or charge differently by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or method of communication.^[1] For instance, under these principles, internet service providers are unable to intentionally block, slow down or charge money for specific websites and online content.