Idea to Retire: Internet without policy metrics (Silvia Elaluf-Calderwood, Jonathan Liebenau, Brookings)

The convergence of the Internet economy with the telecom world has been a process 20 years in the making. For example, the increased use of cellular data instead of voice calls and text messaging has shifted revenues from the telecom sector to the Internet firms, and some Internet firms such as Google are now able to provide fiber connections that were once upon a time the jurisdiction of the telecom sector. However, comparative benchmarks for measuring what the Internet delivers to users are still focused on the traditional engineering metrics of access, speed, and delay instead of policy-relevant measures of types of traffic, origins and destinations, routes, interconnections at exchanges, and the use of private links.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/techtank/posts/2016/03/02-internet-without-policy-metrics-elaluf-calderwood-liebenau