Net neutrality concerns and China's Telecommunication Act

Here we saw the public, drastic debate of the Net Neutrality, and careful considerations of a bill at backside, among stakeholders. As the representatives of the new voice from internet, those giants, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft criticized that the Net Neutrality bill might bring unpredicted potential demage to the internet users, while leaving a loophole to those triple-players or tradional operators who own and operate the internet transmission services. Of course, there must be a long way for the Net Neutrality into a real bill, but this kind of argument will help improve the maturity, integrity, fairness, will eventually benefit the end users.

At China, the Act of Telecommunications is not enacted yet, under longer than 25 year's tough development. The Act, at its draft stage, according to the MII, will be finalized at 2006. It was said the reason for continuously postponing was the uncertainty of the convergency of three networks (telephone, vedio, and data). Comparing to the openness and public participation reflected by the above report, we might better our legislation process to let more people and experts, enterprises involved. See more telecom, security and p2p related comments.

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