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| File: | [View Document] |
| Author: |
Yoo, Christopher S. |
| Citation: | Common Carriage’s Domain, 34 YALE J. ON REG. 991 (2018). |
| Date Published: | 2018 |
| Date Posted: | 07/21/2018 |
| Subjects: | Law and Economics Law and History Law and Regulatory Systems Law, Technology and Communications |
| Keywords: | Regulated Industries Administrative Law Communications Law Computer Law Electronic Commerce Government Regulation Information Law Law and Technology |
| Abstract: | |
| The judicial decision invalidating the Federal Communications Commission’s first Open Internet Order has led advocates to embrace common carriage as the legal basis for network neutrality. In so doing, network neutrality proponents have overlooked the lessons from the history and the academic literature on common carriage. This Essay distills these learnings into five factors that play a key role in promoting common carriage’s success: (1) commodity products, (2) simple interfaces, (3) stability and uniformity in the transmission technology, (4) deployment of the transmission network, and (5) stable demand and market shares. Applying this framework to the Internet suggests that common carriage is not particularly well suited as a basis for regulating broadband Internet access. | |