The Legal Foundations of Net Neutrality in Georgia
Net neutrality stands for equal, non-discriminatory treatment of users and service providers within electronic communications networks. Georgian legislation contains no dedicated net-neutrality norm: the Law of Georgia on Electronic Communications does not directly regulate traffic management. Article 4 of that law establishes the nearest analogous principles, requiring maximum openness, objectivity, non-discrimination, transparency and technological neutrality when the Commission adopts regulatory decisions. Technological neutrality in that provision concerns the regulator’s even-handed treatment of technologies in the rules it sets, not a direct guarantee of network neutrality for users and service providers. Questions touching on network neutrality are therefore assessed through the general principles this law establishes.