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December 3, 2012

A Budding War Over Internet Economics

David Talbot, MIT Technology Review


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A United Nations agency opens debate on Monday over whether it should begin to regulate the Internet. The most hotly contested proposals come from European telecommunications providers and African and Arab countries that want big content providers to pay to send data across their networks.

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TAGGED: ICANN, UN, internet, Economics

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