We consider a heretofore unexplored explanation for why platforms, such as Internet service providers, might impose …

Pricing of Internet access has been characterized by two properties. Parties are directly billed only by the Internet … Service Provider (ISP) through which they connect to the Internet and the ISP charges them on the basis of the amount of …

While some broadband providers have called Internet content and application providers free riders on their … infrastructure, this is incorrect and misguided. End-users pay for their residential broadband providers for access to the Internet … broadband providers’ ISPs in order to reach their customers. This feature of the Internet has been one key factor that has …

telephone companies or cable operators) and instead are likely to act as a complement. Nor will competition in the Internet … lower prices being charged to residential Internet subscribers. This is true under a robust set of assumptions. Despite some …

This paper examines the justifications, history, and practice of regulation in the US telecommunications sector. We … the emergence and decline of the telecom bubble, the impact on pricing of digitization and the emergence of Internet … telephony (VOIP). We also examine the impact of the 1996 Telecommunications Act on market structure and strategy in conjunction …