Washington (March 14) – The debate over Net Neutrality in the United States is a necessary but heated one. For years, lawmakers have argued about how to regulate broadband providers’ traffic management and interconnection pricing in order to police unfair discrimination against third-party devices or services. To this end, the United States has experimented with various forms of Net Neutrality and will likely continue to do so with different frameworks until Congress codifies it into law.

However, in a new policy study, R Street technology policy manager, Tom Struble, argues that as the fight drags on, American consumers are harmed by reduced investment, higher prices and stagnated innovation. He predicts that without guiding legislation, the various stakeholders involved will continue to wrestle with each other – creating an even more fractious and uncertain regulatory environment.

Accordingly, Struble’s study explores the challenges of the Net Neutrality debate and then outlines three potential bipartisan compromise proposals that could resolve it once and for all.

While there will be no easy answers, “for the sake of the American people, [Net Neutrality] must be resolved” and Struble posits that the three proposals he presents “all have the potential to do just that.”

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