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On the weal and woe of internet traffic management in Europe: A critical appraisal from a network economic perspective
Stocker, Volker - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2013
The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) has recently proposed a framework to assess the reasonableness of traffic management (TM) practices. This paper discusses BEREC's proposal from a network economic perspective focusing on the underlying concepts of congestion,...
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Regulation and digital innovation: Theory and evidence
Bauer, Johannes M.; Shim, Woohyun - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2012
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are an important determinant of productivity growth and innovation …. This study examines the effects of sector regulation on innovation in telecommunications and related information industries …. A typology of innovation processes in ICT industries is developed. The conditions conducive to innovation under varying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956674
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The impact of tariff diversity on broadband diffusion: An empirical analysis
Haucap, Justus; Heimeshoff, Ulrich; Lange, Mirjam R. J. - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2014
This paper provides an empirical analysis how tariff diversity affects broadband uptake, utilizing a new data set with 1497 fixed-line and 2158 mobile broadband tariffs from 91 countries across the globe. An instrumental variable approach is applied to estimate the demand for fixed broadband...
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The impact of Broadband quality standards on Internet services market structure in Colombia
Hidalgo, Julian; Oviedo, Juan D. - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2014
This paper develops a structural model which allows estimating the impact of regulatory decisions looking for the setting of download-speed standards on market structure and performance. We characterize a setting under which quality standards improve both service quality and availability. As to...
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Value Creation in a QoE Environment
Heger, Tobias; Schlesinger, Maximilian D. - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2010
User behavior of multimedia services currently undergoes strong changes. This is reflected in several recent trends, e.g. the increase of rich media content consumption, preferences for more individual and personalized services and the higher sensitivity of end users for quality issues. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009295129
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The transformation of household expenditure from offline to online: The case of South Korea
Lee, Dong Hee; Lee, Duk Hee - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2010
Using longitudinal time-series data, this paper analyzes the causes of the recent sharp increase in household expenditure on telecommunications in South Korea with a linear approximate almost ideal demand system (LA/AIDS) model. The main results are as follows. First, Korean household demand for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009295131
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Empirical Study of Effect of Deregulation, Competition, and Contents on Mobile Phone Diffusion: Case of the Japanese 3G Market
Akematsu, Yuji; Abu, Sheikh Taher; Tsuji, Masatsugu - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2010
The Japanese mobile market has recently shown a remarkable growth in the last decade, with more than 106.2 million 3G (3rd Generation, or W-CDMA) subscribers and 4.4 million 2G (2nd Generation, or PDC) as of December 2009. This paper attempts to analyze factors promoting Japanese mobile phone,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009295137
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Cloud Computing: New Business Opportunities for Telecommunications Companies?
Koehler, Philip; Kraemer, Jan; Anandasivam, Arun - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2010
Cloud computing has recently shifted into the center of attention of Telecommuications Companies. Deutsche Telekom, for example, just announced the importance of cloud computing as one of their leading growth sectors (Deutsche Telekom Press Release, 2010). Also other important telecommunication...
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Network Neutrality and the Evolution of the Internet
Knieps, Günter - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2010
In order to create incentives for Internet traffic providers not to discriminate with respect to certain applications on the basis of network capacity requirements, the concept of market driven network neutrality is introduced. Its basic characteristics are that all applications are bearing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009295146
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Internet access and investment incentives for broadband service providers
Baranes, Edmond; Poudou, Jean-Christophe - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2011
This paper studies a model of the Internet broadband market as a platform in order to show how different pricing schemes from the so-called net neutrality may increased economic efficiency by allowing more investment of access providers and enhancing consumers surplus and social welfare.
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