----- On Oct 18, 2021, at 1:40 AM, Masataka Ohta mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp wrote:
Sabri Berisha wrote:
Therefore, anti-trust intervention is only considered in markets where there are a relatively small amount of competitors and this lack of competition harms the consumer, or when one or more dominant parties use their position to force smaller companies into unreasonable compliance with their wishes.
Didn't network neutrality become an issue because "one or more dominant parties use their position to force smaller companies into unreasonable compliance with their wishes"?
The term "network neutrality" was invented by people who want to control a network owned and paid for by someone else. Your version of "unreasonable" and my version of "unreasonable" are on the opposite end of the spectrum. I think it is unreasonable for you to tell me how to run configure my routers, and you think it is unreasonable for me to configure my routers that I pay for the way that I want to. Net neutrality is just a fancy word for "I don't like the fifth"*.
The CDN market has multiple competitors, and the barrier to entry the market is relatively low as you don't have any last-mile issues or difficult-to-get government license requirements.
To enter the market competitively, you must have large number of servers at many locations, I think.
Hence the "relatively low". It is far easier to start a CDN than it is to start a residential internet service. At least here in the U.S. Thanks, Sabri * The fifth, besides the right to remain silent, also contains the takings clause.