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November 2, 2012

Internet Economy: Guns, Butter, Bandwidth

S. Higginbotham, GigaOm


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The internet is made of thousands of networks, and a complex web of economic considerations has developed to support the free flow of information. How bandwidth is “manufactured” and then allocated is far more complex than how a packet gets from here to there.

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