BTEC DIT C3 LAC - Net Neutrality

Equal access is about making sure you get the internet speeds you pay for.

• True

• False

What is the term sometimes used to describe the unequal access between poorer countries/people and richer countries/people?

• The Digital Divide

• The Equality Act

• Net Neutrality

• IT Inequality

What does net neutrality mean?

• Websites cannot discriminate against individuals based on protected characteristics.

• Internet speeds should accurately match the speeds that were advertised for the service.

• Everyone should have equal and open access to the web.

• Businesses should be able to pay for priority fast-lanes on the internet.

What would be the impact on businesses of not having net neutrality?

Choose two options.

• They may have to pay extra for fast internet speeds for employees to do their work.

• They would have faster internet speeds at the same price they currently pay with net neutrality.

• They may have to pay extra for fast internet speeds for customers visiting their website.

• They may find their internet bill will become cheaper saving them money.

True or False: Internet Service Providers would believe that getting rid of the net neutrality laws from 2015 would be a win to help with charging for faster speeds.

• True

• False

A company that provides internet access to customers for a fee is called __________________________________.

• Comcast

• Internet

• Internet service provider

• Social media network

Which of the following would be positive effects on a organisation if Net Neutrality were removed? (Choose all that apply)

• Better and more reliable services could be possible.

• Used choice could become limited, eg. search results filtered to clients who pay.

• Smaller organisations may not be able to compete or innovate with larger rivals.

• ISP's could subsidise free internet for more people from greater profits.

Which of the following would be negative effects on a organisation if Net Neutrality were removed? (Choose all that apply)

• Free speech through social networking could be blocked or filtered

• Block illegal use of peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies which allow sharing of copyrighted material.

• ISP's can charge content providers more for resource-hungry traffic such as gaming, video etc. allowing more investment in their networks.

• Greater monitoring of users' online activities, sold to advertisers etc.

Net neutrality is seen to be beneficial to smaller businesses.

• True

• False

Net neutrality means that ISP's do not block, tamper with, speed up or slow down any data transfers based on source, destination or type of access.

• True

• False