Neutrality, Diversity and Growth - An economic analysis of future Internet policy

The purpose of this paper is twofold. One the one hand it reviews and analyzes the issue of Net Neutrality from an innovative, outcome-oriented perspective: the one of "Network Growth Neutrality". On the other hand it proposes a new recoupment-model for investments in New Generation Network (NGN).
In section one, I explored the concept of Net Neutrality with reference to the economic and juridique literature.

In section two, I provided a detailed overview of the main arguments Pro and Against Neutrality lying at the base of the global debate. I grouped the discussion into following blocks arguments: the changing internet environment, the convergence-congestion problem (in turn linked to the problem of the of sustainability of investments in All-IP networks), the issue of competition over the value chains in internet multi-sided platforms and, eventually, the cross-subsidization and differentiation issues.

In the last section, I analyzed the link between Neutrality and the future internet-sustainable regulation. In this respect, I defined the new concept of Neutrality ("Net Growth Neutrality") as the basis for my suggested approach to policymaking. I referred to the knowledge-economy first. I then analyzed the structure of the internet network and its transactive mechanisms linking the argument to the theories of complexity and auto-organization.
In this section I also presented my investment-recoupment model, based on usage-based pricing and I envisaged some of the possible evolutions of the internet in the years to come.