[pasta_2]

Net Neutrality is really a fight between two industries about shifting their costs onto one another, with really good PR from the tech industry that has enlisted normal people onto their side.

T-Mobile's zero-rating of data from certain music services supposedly violates "net neutrality", but customers like it and it allows them to compete with ATT and Verizon. It may be unfair to some other music service start up, but who cares? It's unfair in the same way that an incumbent has more resources to advertise their product than a start up.

[hga]

There are generally 4 economic players at minimum:

  Network service like Netflix.
  Their ISP, like L3.
  Consumer's ISP, like Comcast (also a Netflix competitor).
  Consumer.

The end points are paying money to the ISPs in the middle.

[mlinksva]

There's also content providers, content owners, or other ugly term. They aren't participating in network traffic, but deeply shape structure and demands of at least network services and consumers above, consumer ISP in some cases.