A U.S. court tomb the principle of neutrality ... - La Voz de Galicia

An appeals court in the U.S. rejected the principle of neutrality of the Internet , the policy applied to date the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and ensuring the access and Internet data traffic equally.

The judgment of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Verizon estimates a demand, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the North American country. And he says that the FCC failed to justify its proper form of anti-discrimination and anti-lock control. The decision may mean a revolution in the way businesses operate on the Internet, according Alt1040 specialized portal, and users use the services and consume content: not the principle of neutrality, pages, services and content can be discriminated and / or blocked by access providers to the network

class=”texto”> With net neutrality ensures that packets of data flowing through it receive the same treatment without any priority or hierarchy, regardless of their content, origin or destination and prevents operators to filter traffic to give greater accessibility to certain pages. Today, for example, user requests are resolved in strict order of arrival, intended to visit the front page of YouTube, a blog or a social network.

The court’s decision may be appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, but according to the website Technology Review, telcos are already preparing U.S. highway traffic data for companies that pay more. For example, if an online TV pay an extra fee to a service provider, users will be able to see its faster than another string that does not pay for affirmative action videos, these circulate through the slow pathway regardless of the width of band that engaged the consumer. Another possibility is that some content positively discriminated (against payment) does not count toward the monthly traffic limit that telcos often applied in their offers data for mobile and tablets. Either way, small or emerging companies will find it more difficult to compete with the giants of the Web

is not the first time Net Neutrality is news . Three years ago as a strong debate on the validity of this principle, which is the essence of lived Internet. In 2010 the alarms sounded after a hypothetical and controversial pact between Google, which increasingly extends its powerful influence to more areas, and said communications operator Verizon to seek exceptions to neutrality and priority traffic finder services. Much debate and heated controversy that had opened worldwide. The U.S. Federal Telecommunications Commission alleged foiled plans by two giants with lying to the court today, valid for fixed networks. But Verizon insisted the courts to claim discrimination data. It has been successful. And it has revived the old controversy: Internet will become two networks, a slow, free and fast and open and one payment? It should be remembered that Europe has yet to definitively regulate the game in the Red and decide whether or not to bet neutrality.