Director of Business Development, Cogent Hldgs
Search every verified Vincent Teissier interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In a September 2010 interview, Vincent Teissier, Director of Business Development at Cogent, discussed net neutrality from the perspective of an internet transit operator. He described transit operators as telecommunications companies that run global fiber optic networks and interconnect with many networks to provide internet connectivity to clients such as internet service providers and content providers. Teissier stated that for transit operators, net neutrality concerns traffic flows and ensuring that traffic moves without restrictions between end users and online content platforms, respecting users' free choice. Teissier said that some historic European internet access providers face a dilemma of declining traditional revenue and the need to invest in networks, and that some intentionally degrade the quality of their internet access services to push users toward their own content platforms. He argued that this raises economic questions about global competitiveness and risks excluding competition in online applications and content markets. Teissier called on public authorities to establish clear rules on net neutrality, particularly regarding interconnection between historic access operators and internet transit operators, and suggested that if current legislation is insufficient, the regulator should specify interconnection modalities to prevent competition distortion or dominant positions.
“An internet transit operator is primarily a telecommunications operator that runs a fiber optic network, usually global, whose role is to interconnect with many networks to provide internet connectivity to its clients.”
“Net neutrality, from our perspective as a transit operator, is about traffic flows; to respect users' free choice, traffic must flow without restrictions between end users and between end users and online content and service platforms.”
“Some historic European internet access providers face a dilemma: they see a decline in traditional access revenue while needing to invest in networks to handle growing internet traffic, and when they try to replace lost revenue with new services, internet subjects these services to global competition.”
“Some access providers intentionally degrade the quality of their internet access services to push their end users towards their own content platforms rather than those available on the open internet, which raises economic questions about global competitiveness and risks excluding competition in online applications and...”
“The question is whether we want to limit innovation and the development of new internet services and activities for essentially economic reasons benefiting a few national champions, or whether we want to preserve end users' free choice and expression.”
“If internet access providers impose usage restrictions for technical reasons, the least they should do is inform end users of these restrictions, assuming they are technically necessary, which remains to be demonstrated.”
“Historic internet access providers limit interconnection capacity with transit operators like Cogent when they receive more traffic than they send, which is paradoxical because transit operators contribute to the success of the internet by providing bandwidth and traffic flows necessary for the development and global d...”
“Transit operators are the guarantors of net neutrality on the internet.”
“It is important that public authorities establish clear rules on net neutrality, especially regarding interconnection between historic access operators and internet transit operators, as interconnection modalities are crucial.”
“If current legislation on interconnection obligations between operators is insufficient, the regulator should specify interconnection modalities within the framework of net neutrality to prevent risks of competition distortion or dominant positions in electronic communications and related markets.”
Vincent Tessier, directeur du développement de Cogent : " Les enjeux du débat sur la net neutralité sont d'abord économiques ...
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