Online price dispersion has remained a puzzle for many years. In this article, we test the effects of a range of factors identified in the literature including vendor strategy, market structure, vendor heterogeneity and the time dimension. We use a dataset collected from the Amazon.com,...

Access to broadband is widely recognized as a prerequisite for a community's economic welfare and the delivery of local government services. In communities where the private sector is perceived as having failed to deliver adequate and affordable broadband services, municipal and county...

America seems to have decided that a "smart grid" is what we need to solve the problems of our electric power system. But, what exactly is a "smart grid"? The answer is that it is many different things. Some of the things that get talked about are relatively inexpensive and can go a long way...

Recent rapid growth in electronic book sales has raised a critical question for publishers and book stores: do e-books cannibalize or increase print sales? In this article we compare the best-selling titles sold on Amazon.com in print or electronic (Kindle) formats during the period from...

Adoption of 3G cellular technology varies widely across countries and regions. Past scholarly works have shown that lower levels of adoption of previous technology and higher levels of income are significant factors in accelerating the take up of new technology in mobile telephony. This apart,...

The demand for more spectrum is increasing, especially larger contiguous blocks for higher peak bit-rate applications. Spectrum aggregation (SA) technology allows multiple contiguous or non-contiguous blocks of spectrum to be treated as if they were one large contiguous block. In this paper, we...

Many proposals for a future Internet architecture envision widely distributed caches within the network that facilitate delivery of named-data. Such proposals, generally referred to as content-centric networking (CCN), aim to address some challenges of the current Internet namely lack of data...

Content delivery from distributed storage nodes within the network provides both an evolutionary and a revolutionary means to deal with the proliferation of content retrieval on the Internet. Regardless of whether the architecture redirects requests to nearby nodes that possess copies of a...

This paper provides a framework for understanding competition and industry structure in the context of Fiber to the Home (FTTH). We present engineering cost models, which indicate that FTTH is a decreasing cost industry, thereby making facilities based competition an unlikely outcome....

Several factors suggest that meaningful network neutrality rules will not be enshrined in near-term U.S. telecommunications policy. These include disagreements over the need for such rules as well as their definition, efficacy and enforceability. However, as van Schewick (2005)1 has demonstrated...