Telenor´s sufficient control over the Internet services in Norway gives reasons to worry – especially for the profesional Internet content suppliers that make consumers want to surfe and has contributed to evolve NorWeb.
How to speed up the Internet is an ongoing discussion. The alternative that the sovereign biggest Norwegian Internet provider, Telenor, use is to scattre the traffic into an A- and B-net. The A-net (a motorway compared to the slow B-net) will give Telenor´s economists the opportunity to use their price diversity profit optimization models. If the big Internett content suppliers (for example Schibsted) dont pay Telenor, their Internet pages (f.ex. finn.no, aftenposten, and VG) wont be available for Telenor customers. The most demanding ones among businesses (and the general public/surfers) will have to pay.
The existing Norwegian Internet eXchange-system (NIX – a cooperating, free system with equal opportunities) will then develop to be the slower alternative.
The small Internet providers in Norway will have the choice between collaborate with Telenor or stay at the slow, unprofitable NIX. The Motorway system between the biggest Telecommunication Companies will, according to Telenor, contribute with a more fairly and equally distributing of the (upload and download) traffic.
Telenor started off in 1855 as a state-operated monopoly, provider of telegraph services. In 1994, the then Norwegian Telecom was established as a public corporation. In 2000 the company was partially privatised and listed on Oslo Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Telenor controls approximately 70 % of the Internet traffic in Norway.
You can find more readable stuff (mostly in Norwegian) at www.ap.no, www.wikipedia.org, www.uio/nix and www.digi.no
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