Net Neutrality and scenarios of Internet Pricing MALOBA MBUYA Firmin 1 1 Institut supérieur de Statistique de Lubumbashi /Département Informatique Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo malobafirmin@gmail.com Abstract This article analyzes the comparisons of net neutrality with the pricing of the Internet. We note that the future threats of congestion which call for the renewal of the infrastructure are accompanied by a search for lucre from the operators of the Internet. This tendency has the ambition of creating a deep discrimination of the Internet by imposing pricing at the inter- operator level as well; at the level of the application, content and service providers rather than that of the users. This leads us to glimpse through the prospective method that highly discriminatory and anti-neutral scenarios will ultimately be characterized by individualized pricing. Keywords: net neutrality, discrimination, price, scenario. We can see that numerous scientific publications have emerged to underline the importance of net neutrality and its contribution in the development of users. It is in particular the shaping of the debate on net neutrality through subsidized information (3), the principles, conditions and forms of net neutrality (4) (5) (6). This problem, which puts Internet stakeholders in opposition, remains central to academics, industry and the various digital actors around the quality of the Internet service to be guaranteed to end-users, the taxation of service providers, Regulation of the Internet by States, interaction of Internet access providers of the last kilometer, access of users to the network and contents, 1. Introduction In 2012, Internet traffic forecasts projected a significant increase of 30-35% per year for fixed and 60% per year for mobile whereas 20% of subscribers accounted for 90% of traffic (1). This has completely changed the relationships between individuals of all races, all religious affiliations and all social classes. There is now a category of workers directly attached to the Internet to which we can associate home and itinerant workers. Already, the Internet of objects is growing with the ability to connect objects to each other; Thus the prospective study of the general commissariat for strategy and foresight (2) (France) estimates to 2.5 billion the number of Internet users and 9 billion the number of connected objects. The principle of neutrality recommends (2) that all traffic circulating on the network be treated equally and non- discriminatory regardless of content, application, service, transmitter, receiver or equipment. kilometer, access of users to the network and contents, and finally copyright, intellectual property, intellectual works of digital as well as the privacy of Internet users. In this perspective, with an Internet without neutrality, the user could be forbidden to publish a blog because he did not subscribe to the payment as a content provider, or that he would be prohibited to download a file because it has not subscribed to an offer authorizing the download, or that it would be prohibited from using an online application because its provider voluntarily discriminated against any traffic from the site from which the resource is offered to him or just some free online library would become paying in order to bear the cost to pay his supplier. On the other hand, it would be difficult to know that after the multiple interconnections a service, an application or a content requested by the user is authorized by all the networks on which it passes. This study is in continuity with the research on the sustainability of the founding principles of the Internet, the objective of which is to guarantee equal and non- discriminatory treatment of trafficking in the provision of IJCSI International Journal of Computer Science Issues, Volume 14, Issue 1, January 2017 ISSN (Print): 1694-0814 | ISSN (Online): 1694-0784 www.IJCSI.org https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4668127 108 2017 International Journal of Computer Science Issues