The Dubai Round of Telcos: proposals for a new structure of the Internet Governance

Flavia Barca and Carla Scaglioni

Economia della Cultura, 2012, issue 3, 315-326

Abstract: In December 2012, the International Telecommunication Union willmeet in Dubai on the occasion of the World Conference on InternationalTelecommunications to review the International Telecommunication Regulations(ITRs), a treaty dated 1988 which established the current frameworkfor interoperability and interconnection of international telecommunicationstraffic.The proposal aims at adapting the rules shaped in 1988 to the so-calleddigital ecosystem. This leads towards the extension of the ITRs to the entireICT sector and not only to the field of telecommunications. A position thatderives from the observation that the production and consumption of telephonyand Internet access, television, radio services, and publishing haveundergone a profound transformation. So far the governance model was shapedaccording to the net neutrality principle, relying on a regulatory imbalanceamong various industry players (on the one hand the telcos, on theotherone OTT). Many operators (supported by some economists) claim thatis time to review this approcch and to go a step further in the implementationof a new and more simmetrical regulatory framework.In the light of the lively debate that ITU proposal has raised, this analysisaims at reviewing the key points of view, proposing a sort of red line throughwhich get better insights of the problem.

Keywords: ITU; net neutrality; OTT; ITRs; asymmetric regulation; telecom; trafic management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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